Welcome Bingo Review

You’d expect a warm welcome when you sign up at Welcome Bingo, and that’s exactly how it proves to be. A 500% first deposit bonus is an offer that’s not to be sniffed at, not to mention the second and third deposits that are also available. These are all good things, but not everything about Welcome Bingo is good. The site exudes a low-fi aesthetic, with an air of having been assembled hastily.

Scroll to the footer of the homepage and there are clues as to why that might be the case: operators Cassava Enterprises appear hell-bent on releasing new bingo sites into the wild on a daily basis, and Welcome Bingo is merely the latest name to go with the latest site they’ve elected to unleash on the public.

There’s nothing wrong with that of course, but it does mean that once you’ve played at one Cassava Enterprises site, you’ve played at them all, for the bonuses, promotions and payment options rarely differ. Likewise the games.

About Welcome Bingo

Operators Cassava Enterprises Limited are based in Gibraltar. From here they plot global domination, aided and abetted by 888 UK Limited, who oversee its UK market, and Virtual Digital Services Ltd who do the same in Europe. All of the games on its site have been independently tested to ensure their fairness and that pay outs are honest. As for the games themselves, bingo is in the name but slots are the game to a large extent. They’re certainly Welcome Bingo’s speciality judging by the range of games to be found.

In fact, Welcome Bingo turns out to be a virtual casino, one stocked with scratch cards, progressive jackpot games, table games and mobile games. Mobile slot players are well catered for, with a selection of slots that have been optimised for touchscreen devices. Play the likes of A Nightmare on Elm Street and Bruce Lee on your tablet or smartphone, in addition to playing 75 and 90-ball bingo. The site has a live chat facility for customers who’d like to speak to a team member and there’s also email support available.

Welcome Bonuses

To welcome you to Welcome Bingo there’s a £10 no deposit bonus on offer. It’s subject to a 6x wagering requirement before winnings can be withdrawn. Once you’re ready to dip into your own pocket and put some money into your playing account, you’ll be rewarded with a 300% bingo bonus and a 100% casino bonus. On your second deposit, this drops to a 200% bingo bonus and 50% casino bonus, before rising on your third to 500% and 150% respectively.

Welcome Bingo is clearly a new operation – most of its operator’s sites are – and as such is still in the process of building up a community. A current promotion to aid it in this regard sees a £1,000 bingo bonus up for grabs, with players simply required to like the Welcome Bingo Facebook page to be in with a chance of winning. There are plenty more prizes and promos to be found at the site, with dedicated bonuses for bingo and slots players.

Cashing Out

There’s a range of convenient options for getting funds in and out of your playing account. Credit and debit card are the most popular choices, with Visa, MasterCard and Maestro all supported. There are alternative options however such as Entropay, Paysafecard, PayPal and Neteller.

When withdrawing funds, there’s a 48-hour wait before the cash will be released. Thereafter, UK MasterCard will only take 2 days to clear. Bank transfer can take considerably longer, however – potentially up to a week.

Three Bingo Choices

The three varieties of bingo to be played at the site, the 75-ball, 90-ball and chat games, come in all shapes and sizes. Or rather, they come in all jackpot sizes. The games that cost pennies to enter naturally have smaller prizes on offer.

For the bigger games, however, there is some major cash to be won running into the hundreds and even thousands of pounds. The chat games are the most informal games of all and the ones that cost the least to enter. They’re about fun more than profit, and as such attract players who are just as interested in conversing as they are in ticking off their bingo numbers.

The playing guides to be found on the site will lead newcomers through the ins and outs of 75 and 90-ball bingo. It’s not the most complex of games to grasp it must be said, whichever variety you prefer to play. While the bingo games are perfectly functional and as good as those to be found at any other site, there’s an air of neglect about Welcome Bingo, with the bingo page bedevilled by typos and other subtle indications that this is a site which has been assembled as a rush job.

Decent Slots

Thankfully, the slots and other games to be played at the site are discernibly better. The quality is better and so is the range of games on offer. While 5-reelers such as Wolf Run and Siberian Storm are as kitsch as you like, there’s no faulting the likes of Superman, Bruce Lee or Kiss, the latter modelled on the legendary 70s rockers.

There’s an entire section of jackpot games populated with the likes of The Big Lebowski, whose jackpot currently exceeds a cool £750,000. Other progressive games of note are Casino Reels and Irish Riches.

Other Games

Away from the bright lights of the slots, there are the bright lights of the scratch games to dive into. Titles such as Noughts & Crosses, Viva Mundial and Ocean Fortune are a doddle to play but pack some serious jackpot prizes. Other options come courtesy of Barn Ville, Cops & Robbers and Fruit Basket.

One of the best things about Welcome Bingo is that it’s stocked with a complete suite of casino games. If you want to play roulette, blackjack, multi hand blackjack and poker you can. Titles include Baccarat, Caribbean Poker, Deal or No Deal Video Poker and Clash of the Titans.

Rating

Welcome Bingo is a functional but deeply uninspiring bingo site. It works, and does exactly what it sets out to do, but it’s not the sort of place you’d call yourself proud to be a member of. There’s nothing about this shoddy and cobbled together site that’s worth shouting about.

There are some good games, it’s true, but these are let down by the lack of care that’s been applied to every other element of the site. Cassava Enterprises have come up with much better bingo sites than this.

If you’re seeking a bingo site that offers casino games on the side, Welcome Bingo’s selection certainly ticks all the right boxes, the slots particularly. The welcome bonuses are pretty good too, as you’d hope of a site named Welcome Bingo. In every other respect, Welcome Bingo is average at best, offering promotions and payment options that are generic and limited. If you can find a better site to play at, go play at it. You’ll have a lot more fun.