Bingo and Beyond Review

What lies beyond bingo? It’s a good question and one you might just find the answer to if you sign up at Bingo and Beyond. British bingo sites tend to look generic and uninspiring. Usually the theme consists of little more than some fluffy clouds and large bouncing bingo balls. Bingo and Beyond goes beyond that, serving up an intergalactic treat for the eyes to savour. There are planets designed to look like bingo balls, naturally, but there are other deft touches too.

You’ve got a female astronaut floating across space, you’ve got rockets launching and aliens poking their heads out of moon craters. It’s all all excellently done, and gives this site a look that instantly places it a cut above virtually every other bingo site out there. The games might be the same when you peer beneath the surface, but the package looks out of this world. This is how you go about theming a bingo site: by picking a viable concept and then implementing it consistently from start to finish and from the first page to the last. While bingo is the main draw here, there are casino games too, with an emphasis on slots.

About Bingo and Beyond

Bingo and Beyond is operated by Cassava Enterprises Limited, a Gibraltar-based company who are a subsidiary of 888 Holdings plc. They’re listed on the London Stock Exchange, so are a major entity, with 888 UK Ltd the company holding a UK gambling license allowing Bingo and Beyond to target British-based players. Cassava Enterprises also hold a license issued by the Gibraltar Gambling Commissioner. Most Cassava Enterprises sites look grim and generic, so it’s a pleasant surprise to encounter Bingo and Beyond. It’s the complete opposite of everything this company have done to date, aside from the games themselves which remain the same.

One particular trait of Cassava Enterprises sites is that their social pages are always – always – dormant. It’s a mystery why they even bother creating Facebook and Twitter pages when there’s no intention of doing anything with them. Bingo and Beyond is so new the site’s Facebook hasn’t had a chance to become a wasteland. Nevertheless, with just one post to date, followed by six weeks of silence, the signs point towards Bingo and Beyond’s social media presence going the same way as that of all other Cassava Enterprises sites. If you require customer support incidentally, you can get hold of a Bingo and Beyond team member by email or by calling a freephone number that’s in operation from 9am to 1am seven days a week.

Traditional Banking

With Cassava Enterprises sites, your best bet for ascertaining deposit and withdrawal options is to glance at the footer of the site. This is always where you find this information with sites from this operator and it’s invariably delivered in a scrolling ticker. Bingo and Beyond might be a refreshingly new site, but it’s one which still accords to tradition in some respects, the banking information being the perfect example.

The payment options comprise Neteller, Visa, MasterCard, Maestro, Entropay, PayPal and Paysafecard. Although it’s not listed there, you’ll also be able to use bank transfer. There is no banking page, but if you head on over to the FAQ, you’ll learn a little more. Specifically, you’ll learn that withdrawals take 48 hours to be processed. After that, it will take 2-3 days on average for your funds to be returned, rising to 5 days for most credit cards. Wire transfer can take up to a week.

Prominent First Bonus

The first deposit offer that’s available when you sign up can be viewed on the homepage, where it’s displayed prominently, is a selection of first deposit offers. Deposit £5 and you’ll be given £15 to play with. Deposit £10 and you’ll receive a total of £40 to play with and deposit £20 and you’ll wind up with a total of £100 to play with. You don’t have to be a mathematician to appreciate that it makes sense to deposit the full £20. Over on the site’s promotions page, you’ll learn more about the deposit options that are available to you.

These transpire to be the normal bonuses that Cassava Enterprises offer. They’re presented in a smarter manner here, but the bonuses themselves remain the same i.e pretty mediocre. These offers include the site’s loyalty scheme, known as xCite Loyalty, which offers the usual bonuses that these schemes provide to regular players. Other promos include Late Night Show, where there’s up to £100 of real money to be won in the late bingo room, and the monthly 2 Million Race. Supposedly 40 winners will be awarded 2 million loyalty points in a scheme that Cassava Enterprises have been trotting out for years.

Bingo Schedule

Head to the bingo page of the site and you’ll be able to check out the schedule for the forthcoming bingo games that are lined up. The schedule shows the number of players in each room, the price of entry and the prize that’s up for grabs. Tickets cost between 1p and £1 on average (save for the free games), and your choices are either 75 or 90-ball bingo. If you tire of the bingo, there are plenty of other options that should keep you entertained. Okay, mostly slots, but good slots, even if they’re generic.

It’s NetEnt central round here, so you’ll be playing games like Guns N Roses, Starburst, Fluffy Favourites and Superman. Between the licensed slots based on comic book and movie stars and the progressive jackpot games, there’s a lot of fun to be had and money to be made. A small casino is also hosted at Bingo and Beyond, one offering Deal or No Deal Roulette, Baccarat, Deuces Wild, Multihand Blackjack and a few others. Games can be viewed in a video preview if you’d like to give them a once over before deciding whether or not to play them for real money.

Bingo and Beyond Conclusion

Appearances aren’t everything, but on appearances alone, Bingo and Beyond passes with flying colours. There’s not a lot that’s wrong with this bingo site in the design stakes. In fact, it looks like an interstellar dream. Beneath the surface it might just be another Cassava Enterprises site, but above the surface it’s a site that’s leagues above the majority of other British casinos that all look the same. Bingo and Beyond deserves commendation then, for it certainly sets the standard that over bingo operators should aspire towards.

It’s not all good of course. Withdrawal requests take a while to clear and the regular promotions are rubbish. Thankfully, the casino bonuses easily pass muster and should be more than enough to entice players to sign up. The bingo games are reasonable enough, even though players only have two types of bingo to choose from. It’s the same with the slots: good games but it would be nice to see games from a different developer featured here. Still, if Cassava Enterprises could release more sites in this vein, the world would be a better place.