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A Fun Time To Be Had At Butlins (Bingo)

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Site rating: 9 / 10

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First Impressions & Ease Of Sign up

It came as no surprise the Butlins, more famed for their cheery UK holiday camps, would venture into the world of online Bingo. Given the popularity of the game at their holiday venues, taking it online was a natural progression for them, considering the ongoing growth of the game online.

We're on familiar territory here, St Minver provide the site and network, so already the familiar layout and ease of use is apparent. If you want to find out more about what that means, take a look at our Bingo Network article for more background on what network sites are.

Finding all the important terms and conditions is a straight forward affair - and signing up is breeze and done securely. The branding is modern and stylish, if not a bit on the common side. The colour scheme refreshing and not too difficult on the eyes.

Sign-Up Bonuses

They offer the standard St Minver powered bonuses for new players. You can start off by getting £1 of free play just for signing up with them (or £2 if you use our Butlins Bingo Promotion Code). You can play the free games without even depositing money. It's a great way of getting a feel for the site before you even deposit.

Once you go on and make your first deposit (Min £10) they give you a 100% match bonus, up to £125. What's more, on your second deposit they give you another 50%. Now, these bonuses can soon stack up. I was especially pleased as when I first signed up there was a long delay between me depositing. I got a promotional Email for a special first deposit bonus of 200% - which I took!

Then, a week ago I got another email with another special offer to match a deposit of £11 with a match bonus of £11. Once more I took them up on that, but as this was my second deposit - I also got the additional 50% match bonus. That's a lot of free Bingo for great prizes.

Ease Of Use

I'm not going to beat around the bush here - the Parlay software is the best out there for functionality, Bingo atmosphere and ease of use. It gives you a lot of control over what you're doing, is well laid out and works well. The version you get with Butlins is branded like their site and a standard high-quality implementation of the Parlay software.

Funding your account is straight forward - you do that via the site outside of the Bingo window - all changes are feed through to the balance you have in game. You have a claim button (that is essentially useless, but none-the-less reassuring to see) and the mute and highlighting options are quickly apparent and easy to get to grips with.

Purchasing both the current game and any future games is also easy. The autoplay feature is easy to set up and takes the focus of you and leaves it on the software to pick up each games tickets whilst you surf around other things or work in another window. You get feedback at all times on what you're spending, and any winnings are added to your balance straight away.

Community Spirit

The community room is always busy - it's an opt-in one so you have to manually enter it, rather than being thrown straight in. The CMs are very friendly and quickly respond to any problems or questions you have. The chat is always fast paced and lively to say the least.

There are plenty of extra chat games going on should you want to join in with them - they add a nice free layer of play alongside the Bingo, but you do have to be quick witted with a few of them!

Prize Money

The St Minver network supplies the pool of players across a range of sites - this means that most times there are a large number of players in. The balance between players and prize money is one of the best. Some of the biggest online Bingo sites do have a lot of players, and whilst the prize money reflects that, it does make it feel that bit less achievable.

Generally, afternoons see around 105ish people in there with prizes in the £10 line, £15 two lines and £30 full house arena. Evenings it got a lot busier with 200+ in, and the prize money raising to £10, £15 and £70 respectively. There's a range of game variations as well during the flow of play, with full house games for snowballs, and a number of chances to win the massive network jackpot. At the time of writing its up over £53,000. Recently, it was won at £91,000!

Security

The high standard of security is apparent around the site. Everything is done under padlocks, your password is never emailed to you and the when you make your first deposit, you set a security word that you'll need to use for any subsequent deposits. All in all - as good as you'd expect.

Overall Feel At ButlinsBingo.co.uk

I really like this site - they email frequently with attractive offers, the quality of game play and user experience is first rate and the prize money and chances of winning well balanced. I am at danger of sounding like a broken record when it comes to covering these St Minver sites, but it's only because for me, they tick all the right boxes with their offering.

Butlins Bingo goes that little further - the sign-up offers and promotions are attractive, and the fact it's all tied in with such a top UK brand add to the feeling of confidence and trust. I'd be happy to recommend anyone to start their online Bingo life at Butlins.

It will be interesting to see if they start offering holiday deals to their members as well as any other special benefits as time goes on. In the meantime, almost a top ranking. There could be some more community driven stuff on the site, but that will come with time I'm sure. Overall rating - 9/10 (April 4th 2007)

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