Robin Hood Bingo sister sites

Our original Robin Hood Bingo sister-site reviews

We have retained all seven original mini-reviews because their design and games judgement is specific and useful. Read their present status alongside that commentary: Pink Ribbon Bingo, City Bingo, Bingo Ireland, Chat Mag Bingo and Loadsa Bingo are active; Fortune Fiesta and Velvet Bingo are inactive.

Robin Hood Bingo sister sites come in three distinct styles. There are bingo sites, casino sites, and casino sites that think they’re bingo sites. We’ll touch on that third category later, but there’s no mistaking the style of Fortune Fiesta – it’s one of the Grand Battery Holdings casino and slots sites, and it comes with a lively party theme. It also has a reasonable welcome promotion in which anything you win from the free spins that come as part of the offer are yours to keep. Even with that going in its favour, though, there are better slots sites on this platform than Fortune Fiesta. It only has around three hundred games compared to the five hundred or so you’ll find elsewhere, and the ones it showcases tend to be quite old. There’s nothing wrong with that if you’re only interested in playing the classics, though.

We feel like we shouldn’t criticise Pink Ribbon Bingo too harshly. It is, after all, trying to raise money for a good cause. Just as Health Games – another of the Robin Hood Bingo sister sites – raises money for charities related to the NHS, Pink Ribbon Bingo raises money for breast cancer charities. That being said, you’ll recall what we said a moment ago about some of the iGaming sites on this platform being slots sites that have deluded themselves into thinking they’re really bingo sites. Pink Ribbon Bingo is one of them. You can tell where the emphasis of this site truly lies, as its welcome promotion is a slots bonus, and it comes with an additional package of free spins to be used on slots. There are bingo rooms at Pink Ribbon Bingo, but they’re not exactly a point of focus for the site.

If you have a keen eye, you’ll spot quite a few Robin Hood Bingo sites that use the same layout as City Bingo while you’re browsing through the Grand Battery Holdings Limited portfolio. Our usual advice is to avoid playing at them, as they tend to be the oldest and most basic sites on the entire platform. If we were going to make an exception for any of them, though, it would be City Bingo. More effort has gone into the theme and design of City Bingo than any of the others, and it’s also mostly functional. That sounds like low praise, but many of the City Bingo lookalikes have broken links on their homepages or elsewhere. We still can’t see any evidence that City Bingo has received a single update since 2019, though, and that remains a cause for concern. Also, the games here are harder to find than they should be.

It takes more to establish an Irish theme than the inclusion of green in a site’s colour scheme and the barely-visible presence of a four-leaf clover in the background. Someone really ought to have explained that to the designer of Bingo Ireland before the site went live. There are quite literally hundreds of Irish-themed casino and bingo sites out there (albeit with an exception for the Robin Hood Bingo sister sites, within which there are curiously few), and it takes something special to stand out. With Bingo Ireland, it doesn’t feel like any attempt has been made to make the site stand out. We could forgive the absence of an exciting theme if there was great bingo content here, but this is another one of those aforementioned sites that pushes bingo to one side so it can focus on slots. The Bingo Ireland welcome promotion is all about slots, and so its bingo games feel unimportant.

Chat Mag Bingo is, as the name all but confirms, the official online casino and bingo site of Chat Magazine, which is one of the various semi-glossy gossip and celebrity chat-obsessed weekly magazines you’ll find somewhere close to the newspapers in Tesco. There are a few such sites among the Robin Hood Bingo sister sites, including Woman Bingo and Pick Me Up Bingo. Given that the sites have big-brand connections, you’d naturally expect them to be among the top sites that the platform has to offer. It is, therefore, a surprise to have to tell you that they’re not. Chat Mag Bingo is especially weak. Its welcome promotion is feeble and comes with high wagering requirements, there are no other promotions to make up for it, and it barely has any bingo games. If we owned Chat Magazine, we wouldn’t want to be associated with this generic site.

The clear implication of a site that calls itself Loadsa Bingo is that there will be loads of bingo rooms to play with if you register an account there. We’re not really sure whether Loadsa Bingo is guilty of telling lies or not. There are indeed some great bingo rooms here – more than you’ll find at a fair few of the other Robin Hood Bingo sister sites that claim to focus on bingo, certainly – but they’re not in the spotlight. The only graphic you’ll see on the Loadsa Bingo homepage is the face of John Hunter, who’s the star of the Pragmatic Play adventure-themed slots games that bear his name. That sends the wrong message about what to expect from the site, but we’ll give it credit for trying to make up for that by offering over 1000 bingo tickets as part of its welcome promotion.

All of the iGaming sites you’ve seen on this list so far are Robin Hood Bingo sister sites. That’s why they’re here. However, some of the Robin Hood Bingo sister sites have closer relationships with each other than others. Velvet Bingo is a good example of that, as it’s basically a twin site with Velvet Slots. The idea ought to be that Velvet Slots does slots, and Velvet Bingo does bingo. Apparently, Velvet Bingo didn’t get the memo. It offers players a sum total of four bingo rooms, after which it dives headlong into the same package of roughly five hundred slots games which are also available at Velvet Slots. Perhaps this wouldn’t be so bad if the bingo bonus welcome promotion at Velvet Bingo was up to much, but it isn’t. Velvet Bingo lacks a unique selling point, but it’s far from alone in that respect on this platform.

What we retained from the original Robin Hood Bingo review

The original observations about the thin promotional calendar and underused Robin Hood theme remain useful, so they are preserved below. The obsolete welcome offer, current-operator error and unsupported fixed payout timetable have been corrected above.

Other Promotions (original review)

Wagering requirements on the bingo bonus aside, the welcome promotion at Robin Hood Bingo is pretty good and whets your appetite for more promotions and bonuses. As such, it sets you up for disappointment. Robin Hood Bingo is one of the most basic bingo sites on the Grand Battery Holdings Limited platform and doesn’t come with any promotions save for its welcome bonus. There are quite a few Robin Hood Bingo sister sites in the same boat, but they tend to share a uniform, template-based look. With its bespoke layout, Robin Hood Bingo fools you into thinking there’s more content on the site than there actually is.

Final Thoughts on Robin Hood Bingo (original review)

This isn’t really a bingo site. It’s a slots site with a few token bingo games attached to it. As such, it’s one of more than one hundred basic casino sites on the Grand Battery Holdings Limited platform. It might have been saved from being generic if it made more use of its Robin Hood theme, but it doesn’t. The legendary folk hero doesn’t make a single appearance anywhere on the site. All in all, it feels like whoever put Robin Hood Bingo together couldn’t really be bothered to make the effort.