Bingo Loft Review

Thanks to its logo, featuring a sloped roof housing the name of the site, Bingo Loft resembles a DIY store, but you can’t purchase insulation and spot lighting here: just tickets to bingo games and slot machine credits. While eminently less practical than DIY, it’s way more fun.

As themes go, Bingo Loft’s isn’t the wackiest, but it’s certainly up there. It’s only a matter of time until every last adjective in the dictionary has been used to name a bingo site. What will gaming operators do then?

Bingo Loft forms an unusual but fully functional bingo and slots website, one whose building and home improvement theme is maintained right down to a series of Lego-style backgrounds featuring row after row of distinctive Lego tiles. There’s a 200% welcome bonus to look forward to, a handful of progressive jackpots to be claimed and a mobile-friendly design that ensures Bingo Loft looks and works as good on smartphone and tablet as it does on desktop.

About Bingo Loft

Bingo Loft is operated by Cassava Enterprises Ltd, a Gibraltar-registered company who are a subsidiary of 888 Holdings plc. They in turn are a major gaming company who are listed on the London Stock Exchange and have their finger in many pies. Cassava Enterprises alone are responsible for dozens upon dozens of bingo sites, each kitted out with the same games and promos as Bingo Loft and differentiated solely by name and corresponding theme.

Cassava Enterprises hold a gaming license issued by the government of Gibraltar, but the site also holds a license issued to 888 UK Ltd by the Great Britain Gambling Commission. For customers accessing the site from the EU, Virtual Digital Services Ltd are responsible for running the show. The final company of note in this maze of gaming firms is Brigend Limited, who provide the software that powers the site.

Loft’s Banking

Bingo Loft uses 128-bit encryption, giving players the confidence to deposit funds securely, in the knowledge that their personal details will not be visible to or shared with third parties. For players who still feel uncomfortable with submitting their details over the web, there is a freephone number available for the purpose of credit and debit cards. This UK number is also free for customers phoning from elsewhere in the world. In addition to Visa, Maestro and MasterCard, Bingo Loft accepts PayPal.

The other deposit and withdrawal options come courtesy of Entropay and bank transfer. The minimum withdrawal amount is £30 and requests will take 48 hours to be processed. The first time you try to make a withdrawal, you may be prompted to provide verification documents including some form of photographic ID and proof of your residential address.

The Bonuses

Sign up at Bingo Loft and you’ll be awarded a 200% welcome bonus, turning your £10 deposit into £30. If you want to deposit more you can; up to £200 in bonus cash can be claimed in this manner with your first deposit. Thereafter, there’s a 50% Redeposit Bonus to be claimed each time you top up your account. The site is awash with bonuses and promotions of all kinds including special bingo games, some of which are designed exclusively for mobile players.

The site also operates a loyalty scheme known as Joy Gem VIP Club. With every deposit you make, you’ll be awarded gems and given the chance to ascend through the ranking system. The higher your VIP level, the greater the perks you’ll be entitled to including admission to exclusive bingo games and cashback.

Bingo Games

There’s an excellent range of bingo games to be enjoyed at Bingo Loft, with 75-ball and 90-ball games hosted along with a few other variants. New players can enter the Newbies Room, where exclusive bingo games will ensure their first 3 days on the site pass in a fun-filled blur. The 75-ball games operated by Bingo Loft are held on a 5x5 grid, with players looking to complete a predetermined shape or to cover every number (what’s known as a coverall) to win a prize.

With the 90-ball game, a 9x3 grid is used and players can win by securing 1 line, 2 lines or full house. There are a few other bingo games on offer at the site which provide a refreshing alternative to the traditional forms of the game. Try 5 Line Bingo, which is also known as Swedish Bingo, in which players can complete lines horizontally, diagonally or vertically. Then there are the progressive jackpot games to look out for, where the top prize starts at £100 and keeps growing from there.

Slots

Slots are the other means of whiling away the time at Bingo Loft while chasing down a jackpot win. The site has a pretty nifty arrangement here, with slots sorted thematically, a format that tends to appeal to female players, who the site is naturally targeted at. By and large, men tend to be more interested in the features of the various video slots, women in the themes. Choose from slots that are cheeky, cute, fantasy, adventure and TV-based, among other themes.

In term of quality, it’s a mixed bag; there are some great slots to be found here such as Guns N Roses, Shaman’s Dream and Imperial Destiny. Others, like Fireworks Frenzy, Wheel of Fortune and Lost Island, aren’t much to shout about. On the plus side, the sheer number of slots ensures there should be something here to take your fancy, whether it’s a classic fruit machine or one of the progressive jackpot slots.

A Host of Other Games

There are a few other games too, aside from slots and bingo, noticeably scratch cards. These require players to do little more than match symbols to win a prize. There’s keno too, the popular Asian lottery game, which comes in the form of Cappuccino Keno. Completing things is a trio of table games: Blackjack, La Partage Roulette and European Roulette.

Bingo Loft Rating

Bingo Loft is a reasonable and perfectly capable bingo site, even if it offers nothing new or noteworthy. The theme is a bit meh, and the overall look of the site isn’t much to shout about.

Still, it’s got a few things in its favour, not least the fact that it operates well on tablet and mobile. It also helps that the company – or rather companies – behind the site have a positive reputation within the trade. Customer support is good and so is the range of payment options available. As for the promotions, the opening offer is reasonable, albeit nothing worth shouting about.

The 50% reload bonus is good, but the remaining promotions are too scattered to give the site any real theme or focus. There’s certainly a lot going on at Bingo Loft, but taking it all in at a glance isn’t easy. It’s as if the site’s operators came up with a name for it but then couldn’t quite work out how to integrate it into their games or promotions. Speaking of games, the range of bingo games is pleasing, likewise with the slots and other games to be found at Bingo Loft.