Two Fat Ladies Bingo Review

“Play at the UK’s best bingo site”, screams the tagline for Two Fat Ladies. With a name like that you’d expect this to be a pretty serious bingo website, but even so the claim is rather egocentric. So, can it live up to the claim? Will the hype prove to be false in the end? Does anyone really care? Well, we do, because it’s our job to rank and rate casino websites, and so when we come across one that has made such outlandish declarations you can’t help but question as to why the developers feel it’s appropriate.

After the homepage first loads up, though, things start to look quite convincing. The website looks slick, and smooth, which is more than we can say for many, and the fonts chosen are all actually pretty nice – perhaps not the sort of thing that yells high end business at you, but nonetheless a vast improvement on many.

Ladies, Let’s Begin

In terms of the layout, it’s relatively bog standard stuff, but it serves the purpose well. The top of the page is dominated by a menu row containing links to important areas of the site, whilst also clarifying what’s on offer. ‘Join Now’, ‘Promotions’, ‘Bingo’, ‘Slots’, ‘Casino’. So far so good, then – we know that there are bingo games, slots, and casino games all on offer.

Beneath this is the slider image – albeit a static one- that shows off how you can get up to a 300% bonus for signing up, along with ten free spins for the slots. This is a much better sign up offer than we’re used to seeing, but let’s leave the promotions for a little later in this review. Not that you necessarily need to- there’s a whole row on the homepage dedicated to a quick overview of the promotions offer. Below this there are New Slot Games, and while we’re not sure how new new really means, it proves the mantra of the site design is thus- make it clear, at least in brief, what we can expect from a membership.

Bingo, Bingo, Bingo!

Most people are going to come to a bingo website with the sole intention of playing some bingo, obviously. But when you call the website Two Fat Ladies, you get bet your bottom ball that the vast majority, if not all, players will be here for bingo. With that in mind it’s a relief to find that Two Fat Ladies is providing a lot of bingo to those players. There’s 90-Ball, 75-Ball, High 5, Free Bingo, Progressive Bingo, and Bingo Jackpots on offer here, and that’s definitely a lot better than many others.

Having said that, whereas other website provide great walkthrough type guides with visual aids to help new members get to grips with how to play, and how to win, Two Fat Ladies only has a very brief text breakdown of how the different games work, and this is likely to be skipped over by most people, meaning there’s a good chance freshmen (and women) will be learning how to play as they go along.

Slots ‘O Fun

It’s always good to avoid limiting members in terms of what they can play, and Two Fat Ladies avoids this very well indeed. If you click on Slots, you’ll be taken through to the section of the site that has thumbnails linking through to individual slots. There’s a decent number here, although nothing compared with some sites we have seen. Having said that, the quality of the games is what is worth talking about here- they really are very good.

Casino, Really?

While it’s pretty standard for bingo websites to venture into the territory of slots, it’s less common for bingo websites to invade the territory of the online casino. We’re not 100% sure on what casino websites feel about this intrusion on their turf, but from a player’s perspective it’s pretty welcome.

The problem with Two Fat Ladies in terms of this is that there aren’t many casino games on offer. If you’re going to branch out it’s pretty important that you do so properly and put plenty of time and investment behind it. Sadly this isn’t the case here. Nevertheless, as with the slots, the standard of the games seems to be high overall.

So, although you only get four bangs – or rather games – for you bucks, in this instance Live Roulette, French Roulette, European Roulette, and Automatic Live Roulette; these are all very good to play. The problem being that if you don’t like roulette you’re obviously pretty screwed. Thankfully, we do like roulette. In fact, we like it a lot. Still it would be nice to have some other options, for example poker, or blackjack, or keno if you want to get really exotic. Well, maybe not exotic but hopefully you know what we mean.

Something for Nothing, Sirs and Madams?

Promotions have grown to become the backbone of bingo and casino websites, and are their lifeblood in terms of attracting new members. Reassuringly, Two Fat Ladies understands this, and offers some great promotions for you to get involved with.  The stand out one being your sign up bonus of 300%, which is a lot more than many others will offer. This is valid up to the value of £88, which isn’t actually that much, but in terms of the investment on your part – and therefore value for money – it’s definitely more than competitive.

Other great offers include Happy Hour- where players will be given 100% bonuses at certain times of day. The Big £10,000 means basically winning ten grand, meanwhile the Sure Thing is, as it sounds, where betting on bingo is a sure thing, and you’ll definitely win something (although best to check the Ts and Cs on that front).

Any Other Bingo Business?

Well, yes. It’s worth noting that for all the great little decisions that have been made in terms of Two Fat Ladies and its content, there’s no obvious way of actually making contact with anyone on the site itself. This may be clearer once into the members area, but from the outside looking in the assumption is that you can’t actually get through to anyone if necessary.

This might not sound like the worst thing in the world, but let us assure you that for some people knowing you have that peace of mind is vital if the developers want to actually persuade people to sign up for an account. As such, this is a bit of an oversight to be sure.

Two Fat Ladies Conclusion

Two Fat Ladies promises a lot – there’s the claim that this is the UK’s finest bingo website, and there’s also the fact that the name itself is a reference to the most famous bingo call of all, 88 (arguably just ahead of legs, 11). It seems to have self-confidence and pride.

The problem is, it only just about lives up to those expectations. Yes, there are great bingo games on offer, and plenty of them. Yes, the bingo prizes are also fantastic. But then the choice of slots is, whilst high quality, only average really, and the casino section is clearly an afterthought. All this may have been acceptable ten years ago, but in this day and age there are amazing bingo websites that have done all this far better. Nevertheless, we do like Two Fat Ladies, we just don’t love it.