Bingo Street Sister Sites

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Bingo Street Sister Sites

City Bingo used to be one of the best-known bingo-based Bingo Street sister sites, which is a lot of instances of the word “bingo” in a single sentence. We use the past tense here because City Bingo’s star has faded in recent years. It was an attractive, modern-looking bingo site once, but casino web design trends have changed in the past decade, and City Bingo has remained the same. Its globe-trotting theme is still easy on the eye, though, even if its “Bingo in Hong Kong” slogan still makes zero sense in any context.

City Bingo is undoubtedly a better bingo site than Bingo Street, but it belongs to the same old-school group of iGaming sites on this network, and it’s firmly in the shadow of the likes of Quality Bingo, Chat Mag Bingo and quite a few of the others. Speaking of the other Bingo Street sister sites, let’s move on to talking about them, so we have a basis for comparison.

On the homepage of Quality Bingo, the iGaming site refers to itself as “your new excellent UK bingo site.” That’s not strictly accurate. Quality Bingo has been around for far too long to refer to itself as “new.” In terms of “excellent,” though, it might have a point. There are more than one hundred free bingo tickets lined up as a welcome promotion for anyone who joins the site and makes a first deposit of at least £10, and as far as we can tell, there are no wagering requirements attached to that promotion.

Quality Bingo has been through a redesign since it changed hands from the 888 Group to Grand Battery Holdings Limited, but it still has plenty of original bingo rooms, including Street Party, Mystery Jackpots, and the delightfully-named Wonky Room. No matter how many balls you like to play with or what your budget is, Quality Bingo will have something that suits you. If you’re bored of bingo, you have a choice of over five hundred slots to pick from.

Not everybody reading this will have bought or read a copy of Chat Mag during their lifetime, but you’ll probably have at least heard of it. It’s very difficult not to – the magazine is prominently positioned in most places where magazines are sold, and it’s also been advertised on television for years. This is its official bingo site – or, at least, it’s its official bingo site in theory. Not all of the Bingo Street sister sites that claim to be bingo sites are actually bingo sites in the strictest sense of the word.

You don’t have to scroll very far down the homepage of Chat Mag Bingo before you see that its games collection is topped by just four bingo rooms, after which all the entertainment available at the casino is row upon row of slots. The promotions at Chat Mag Bingo aren’t on the level we’d expect to see from an iGaming site that has big-brand connections, either. It’s all a little disappointing.

You’ll recall that mere moments ago, we said that not all the Bingo Street sister sites that have “bingo” in their names actually specialise in bingo. Bid Bingo only serves to emphasise that point. It’s an attractive iGaming site with a modern sense of style and makes a strong first impression on the basis of its graphics, but the focus of its welcome promotion is totally wrong for the type of site it’s supposed to be.

Written in big, bold type across the middle of the Bid Bingo homepage is an offer of a 200% matched deposit slots bonus plus as many as 150 free spins. It would actually be a great welcome promotion if this were an online slots site (or, at least, it would be if not for the x65 wagering requirement), but it’s ill-suited to a bingo site. If anything, it detracts from the few bingo rooms that do exist at the site, some of which have the potential to deliver big prizes.

Finally, a bingo site that actually wants to put the spotlight on bingo! Dazzle Bingo won’t necessarily dazzle you with its good looks. It’s not as basic as some of the Bingo Street sister sites, but it’s not one of the top Grand Battery Holdings sites when it comes to aesthetic quality. It does, however, offer one hundred bingo tickets to all new players who join the site and make at least £10 as an initial deposit, and it doesn’t hinder the promotion with any wagering requirements.

Dazzle Bingo has never been advertised on British television, but you may have heard the name before. That’s because it’s routinely advertised on the Greatest Hits Radio Network, Hits Radio and Heat Radio, and it makes a point of telling you this by featuring the relevant logos on its homepage. Dazzle Bingo offers about five hundred slots to go with its bingo rooms, but that appears to be par for the course with all of the Bingo Street sister sites.

Bucky Bingo is close to the top of the list of Bingo Street sister sites when it comes to appearances. It’s a site that knows how to make an instant mark on its audience. An image of a horse with a pink mane wearing star-shaped golden sunglasses has a tendency to do that sort of thing. Bucky Bingo was proud to be voted the Best Dragonfish Bingo Site by the BingoPort awards in 2021. We know it’s proud of that fact because the accolade is still positioned right in the middle of the homepage of its website.

As an iGaming site, Bucky Bingo tries to take a “best of both worlds” approach, giving equal importance to slots and bingo despite clearly having the word “bingo” in its name. That might be a consequence of the fact that it’s been through quite a lot of changes since it launched in 2008, including more than one change of casino network. There are over eight hundred games at the site in total, giving this site one of the deepest and most varied portfolios on the platform.

Bingo Street operator – Grand Battery Holdings Limited

Grand Battery Holdings Limited is already a major player in the UK’s casino industry, with a staggering number of sites under its UKGC licence. It’s remarkable that the company has achieved such success considering it was only founded in early 2022. All of the sites hosted on its platform were once part of the 888 Group, which decided in 2021 to focus solely on its casino and sports betting sites and withdraw from the bingo business. Consequently, over two hundred sites were bundled together and put up for sale. Beating off significant interest from elsewhere, Dublin-based Broadway Gaming secured the deal for a staggering £38m. This surprised some industry experts who believed the price should have been higher, given the profile of some of the sites included in the package. Nonetheless, they all became Broadway Gaming Limited sites – although Broadway Gaming chose not to manage them directly. Instead of including them under its existing UK Gambling Commission licence, Broadway established Grand Battery Holdings Limited as a new home for them.

Grand Battery Holdings Limited is a far-from-conventional casino company. It shares its address with Broadway Gaming and was established solely for the purpose of obtaining a UK Gambling Commission licence and serving as the new host for all the ex-888 Group sites. The company officially took ownership of these sites in February 2022. As a shell company and extension of Broadway Gaming, Grand Battery Holdings Limited has no independent identity of its own. No one works for Grand Battery Holdings, and it doesn’t even have a website or a business logo – we had to create one for the sake of visual representation.

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Bingo Street Welcome Bonuses

New players at Bingo Street can claim a 200% matched deposit bingo bonus with a few caveats attached to it. The first is that the absolute limit on matched bonus funds is £200, and there’s a minimum qualifying deposit of £10. The second is that there’s a wagering requirement attached to the bonus, too. The good news is that the wagering requirement is a mere x2, so this deal represents good value for money overall. It’s not a bad way to acquaint yourself with the site

Other Promotions

Similar to many of its sister sites, Bingo Street offers a loyalty reward system to its players that involves earning virtual “Coins” for their gameplay. Every £10 spent on slots equates to a single “Coin” to add to the player’s collection. These “Coins” can then be redeemed for various benefits and bonuses in the “Your Shop” section of Bingo Street, where players are encouraged to reward themselves for their efforts. Most of the available rewards in the shop are typical casino bonus packages, such as free spins. Other perks up for grabs at Bingo Street include a small daily cashback reward on losses from the previous day, awarded at a rate of 3% with a minimum of £5 and a maximum of £100, and a “Rockin’ Wheel” which allows players who make regular deposits to spin a bonus wheel and win more “Coins” to spend in the shop.

Top Games at Bingo Street

The Bingo Street website has gone without major updates ever since it was launched way back in 2011. As such, it’s horribly dated by modern standards. One of the consequences of that is the lack of a “top games” section on its homepage. In fact, there are no games highlighted on the homepage of Bingo Street at all. You’ll have to click on the “games” section to find the games, and even then, all you’ll see is a list of five fairly basic, nameless bingo games. From that point of view, you could say that there aren’t any top games at Bingo Street at all. Worse still, when we tried to open the “instant win games” page to look at the slots, we got a 404 error. We have no idea where the site keeps its slots. Without them, it’s impossible for players to win “Coins.”

Customer Support and Licensing

While live chat support isn’t offered by Bingo Street, players can still get prompt assistance via its toll-free telephone support available between 10am and 2am on 0800 238 7528 or by sending an email to support@bingostreet.com. Bingo Street operates under UK Gambling Commission license 58267, owned by Grand Battery Holdings Limited, and has kept a clean record with the regulator as of the time of writing.

Withdrawal Speed and Support

The withdrawal options available at Bingo Street are somewhat limited and may pose problems for some players. Currently, the site only allows withdrawals via verified UK debit cards or PayPal. The processing time for withdrawal requests is unusually long, with a mandatory two-day processing period for all requests. After this period, PayPal withdrawals require an additional 2-3 days to process, while debit card withdrawals involve an even longer waiting time of 5 business days. As a result, players may experience a delay of over a week before their funds become available, depending on the timing of their withdrawal request.

Final Thoughts on Bingo Street

We wouldn’t feel comfortable spending money at Bingo Street. There are too many parts of the site that appear to be broken, and the fact that some of its games don’t load is a real cause for concern. Times in iGaming have changed a lot since Bingo Street experienced its heyday, but Bingo Street has never changed at all. It might serve more purpose as a digital museum than it does as an active iGaming site.

Bingo Street Player Reviews

Here are the thoughts of your fellow players about Bingo Street. The reviews are all real, but we’ve paraphrased them to keep them brief.

There has only been one player review of Bingo Street posted on a major review website during the past decade. That’s a fair indication of where the site is in terms of its popularity and player base. If more reviews of Bingo Street appear in the future, we’ll present them here to give you an idea of current player feedback.