Sign up

As with most bingo sites, signing up to Crown Bingo is fairly straight forward and you simply need to enter details such as your name, address, username, email address and password. Rather usefully they do ask you to choose a security word and associated prompt for additional security on your account. They also ask for your mobile number although it's not compulsory so you don't have to enter it if you'd prefer not to share this information with them.

Once you've completed your details you simply need to click on the link provided to claim your free £1 bingo credit and they'll also match your first deposit up to £250.

You will also need to register a chat room name before you can start playing. This should be different from your login username as it will be displayed next to your posts in the chat rooms for everyone to see.

Design

Crown Bingo have very distinctive looking site centred on a deep blue colour scheme that while eye catching can make the (white) text a little hard to read on occasion. However despite this all the information is clearly presented in a orderly boxed fashion so you can still find the information you need.

Their bingo lobby definitely helps Crown Bingo stand out from the crowd with its 'real life bingo lobby' design and they use a nifty spinning mechanism to help you select the room you want to play in.

The bingo rooms themselves continue the blue theme although its broken up with bright orange and yellow boxed that make the page a little easier on the eye. They're very simple to navigate around and even resize automatically when you select an instant game to play so that you don't have to miss out on bingo or chat while you're playing.

Usability

Crown Bingo is an incredibly easy site to use and their minute by minute bingo schedule (accessible from both the home page and each individual bingo room) makes figuring out when and where to play even easier.

They have a comprehensive range of customisation options that really help you to make the site your own from changing the dabber style and colour to selecting the different sound options; you can even help your new bingo friends to get to know you a little better by creating your own bingo profile.

Crown Bingo have a comprehensive help section that will clear up anything you are unsure of and you can even contct their customer services directly by clicking on the phone and computer icon in the bingo lobby.

Games

At the moment Crown Bingo are a 90 ball only site (although they are planning to introduce a 75 ball room in the near future) and while this does take away a little variety they still have a really great selection of games on offer in their 3 rooms.

Perhaps the 'piece de resistance' is Crown Bingo's speed bingo room where games are run every two and a half minutes and numbers are called every second (so you have to be incredibly handy with the dabber if you decide to go it alone without autodab!). The fast paced games run in this room only add to the excitement of regular bingo and mean that you get more chances to win which is only ever a good thing!

Crown Bingo have a really great bunch of instant games on offer all of which, from their scratchcards to progressive slots, offer brightly coloured, interactive fun. While they don't quite have the volume of instant games that some other sites offer they more than make up for this by making the ones they do have really high quality.

Jackpots

While Crown Bingo don't stretch to the millionaire jackpots on offer on some other sites, they certainly make playing well worth your while. For starters they continually run 4 big bonus jackpots in addition to the regular jackpots up for grabs in their games rooms with their 'Cash Cow' bringing the 'big money' element to the site.

They also run two £1,000+ coveralls and a £10,000 starting turbo charger progressive jackpot in their speed bingo room so you still have plenty of opportunity to win a life changing amount. On top of their jackpots they run regular promotional giveaways that will keep you coming back for more.

Chat

Crown Bingo roomies form a really close knit community headed by their incredibly welcoming CMs who are among the friendliest in the business. There's always a lively feel to each of their rooms that will get you giggling in no time and to top it off you have the chance to win up to £5 worth of bingo credit a day when you take part in their inventive yet easy to play chat games.

Support

Crown Bingo have a really friendly, efficient customer services team that you can contact by email or via their live chat. We've found that they respond really quickly and competently to your queries and you're never waiting long for a response regardless of whether you use email or live chat to get in touch.

Security

Crown Bingo guarantee the safety and security of any personal information you enter onto their site by strictly adhering to the practices set out in the 1998 Data Protection Act and using the latest encryption software available.