Lilu Casino

Lilu Casino Welcome Bonuses

You should be able to make out the Lilu Casino welcome promotion on the screenshot above, where it’s advertised as a welcome pack worth 525% in combined boosts up to a maximum of £5000 and 500 spins – not a bad-sounding deal at all. It’s a four-stage promotion, broken down as 150% up to £1250 and 200 spins with deposit one, 125% up to £1250 and 100 spins with deposit two, 100% up to £1250 and 100 spins with deposit three, and 150% up to £1250 and 100 spins with deposit four. The minimum qualifying deposit is £20 for the first three legs and £50 for the fourth, but the wagering requirement remains uncomfortably high at x45 throughout.

Sports betting is also on the agenda at Lilu Casino, with a separate welcome package available to those who fancy a flutter. It’s 100% up to £200 with deposit one, 100% up to £250 with deposit two, and 100% up to £300 with deposit three to create a package worth £750 overall. There are no wagering requirements in the traditional sense, but bets with bonus funds are limited to events with odds of 1.8 or greater, and stakes aren’t returned with winnings. That’s par for the course for this kind of bonus.

Other Promotions

The top ongoing promotion on the slots and casino games side of things at Lilu Casino is the daily cashback incentive, which can be worth up to 20% with a cap of £30,000 per day. We’ll come back to the “up to” part of that in a moment. Players can also claim a double free spins offer on Mondays, with 50 spins granted that day and 50 the following day in return for a minimum deposit of £20. Spins are locked to Gold Rush with Johnny Cash, winnings are capped at £200, and wagering remains difficult at x45.

Wednesdays bring a 50% deposit boost up to £500 with a minimum of £20 and the same wagering requirements in force, and you can get 75 free spins on Friday for £20. Those spins will come attached to the newest arrival in the casino’s slots catalogue. Finally, the Weekend Power Up promotion is a 77% match up to £777 and 77 spins on Bonanza Billion, with the usual minimum qualifying deposit and wagering requirement in place. There are no general ongoing promotions for sports bettors.

VIP Club

There are a whole twenty-five levels to the Lilu Casino VIP scheme, with the levels split between five specific ranks: Rookie, Wizard, Luminist, Magister, and Grandmaster, thereby fitting into the fantasy theme of the site. Progress through the ranks is wholly based on wagering, and rewards are meagre at the lowest levels. As Rookies, players get 6% daily cashback with a cap of £180, cash bonuses worth a maximum of £26, and 2% rakeback. At the other end of the scale, players who achieve the rank of Grandmaster can look forward to the full 20% cashback, 15% rakeback, and £55,000 in cash bonuses. An increasingly valuable daily Wheel of Fortune spin unlocks at each new level, alongside unspecified daily and weekly bonuses, plus personal account management.

What’s entirely missing from the scheme is information about how much players need to wager to access each new level, and without that information, it’s impossible to say how fair the VIP Club is (or isn’t) no matter how juicy the rewards at the highest level look. Based on what limited information we can see, we think the best of the rewards will remain out of reach unless you’re spending thousands per month with the casino.

What are the Pros and Cons of Lilu Casino?

Featured Slots and Games

These days, the best casino game studios and providers limit themselves to working with regulated, licensed casinos. In fact, studios that work with unlicensed casinos can find their products blocked from the UK market altogether. That’s why we’re surprised that Lilu Casino, which has no recognised licence, is carrying slots like Le Zeus (Hacksaw Gaming), Legacy of Dead (Play’n Go), Moon Princess 100 (also Play’n Go), and Roker Joker: Hold and Win 3×3 (Playson). It might be the case that the casino has managed to acquire and host the slots through legitimate means, but it would be both risky and out-of-character for the studios to supply them in these circumstances. That’s why we have to view their presence here with suspicion.

If Lilu managed to get a lucky break with its slots selection, it didn’t have quite as much luck with its live dealer range, most of which comes from Iconic21. There are still some fairly well-known titles here, including The Kickoff and 360 Midnight Blackjack, but the games on offer are pretty basic for the main part. It would be remiss of us not to also point out that Lilu Casino comes with a sportsbook, but we’ve just done that, so now we’ll move on.

Withdrawal Options and Speed

Very helpfully, Lilu prints a full list of its accepted payment methods towards the bottom of its homepage. For the sake of completeness, that list starts with Apple Pay and also includes Ecopayz, iDeal, Jeton, Muchbetter, Neosurf, Neteller, Paysafecard, Interac, Skrill, Trustly, and Volt. That’s a fair-enough list, but we’re surprised by the apparent absence of debit cards, the lack of support for PayPal, and no support for cryptocurrencies either. Regardless of that, Lilu’s full terms and conditions say that the casino is generally able to process (or reject) withdrawal requests within 48 hours, which is neither commendably quick nor too slow.

Customer Support and Licence

Players who want to contact Lilu Casino through email can do so by firing one off to support@lilu.bet, but might get faster help through the on-site live chat service, which is advertised as being available 24/7. The footer of the casino’s website bears the seal of an authority based in Costa Rica, but the authority in question deals with company registrations rather than casino regulation, so it doesn’t count as a licence. Lilu Casino is, therefore, an unlicensed iGaming site, and is illegal in Britain for that reason.

Lilu Casino – The Verdict

We’d feel OK about recommending Lilu Casino to our international readers if it weren’t for the whole “lack of any kind of licence” thing. If we were able to put that aside, we’d say the bonuses are OK if a little steep on the wagering side of things, the VIP rewards are probably fine if you’re spending a lot of money, and the game catalogue is surprisingly good. Unfortunately, the licensing issue trumps everything else because it has to. Holding a licence is the only thing an online casino can do to demonstrate trustworthiness to players, and any casino that doesn’t have one can’t be trusted even if it isn’t actively doing anything untoward.