Crown Bingo is the real deal in online bingo and is sure to tick all of your boxes. When you first login you'll be greeted by a friendly, welcoming community lead by a team of superb Chat Masters and assisted by the host of regulars, especially during a Team Bingo session! I really can't remember the last time I had such a warm welcome, ever. It's the perfect match for UK based online bingo players and is my favourite site. It's got great UK based customer support (something I find comforting) including email and live chat, a very generous instant deposit bonus up to £250, over £100 given away everyday in cash prizes and a good number of bingo players at anyone time meaning you have a good chance of winning and the prizes are usually £100+. Crown Bingo also also boast the services of Karl Seth, Bingo Caller of the Year 2005.

If you live in the UK and want to play bingo online, then look no further than Crown Bingo.

Getting Started
Registration is quick and hassle free, no credit card or email verification is required and there is a complimentary £1 for all new players to test out the games before depositing – a very nice touch indeed! Depositing is easy and very safe using Visa, Mastercard, Solo, Maestro or Visa Electron. The minimum deposit is £10 and the maximum is £300. Crown Bingo will match your first deposit 100% (up to £250!) - just email support and it'll be credited to your account in minutes.

Playing Bingo
The bingo schedule at Crown Bingo is varied with the cost of a ticket varying from 5p to £1. Games are scheduled to start every 6 minutes, which usually leaves 1-2 minutes between games. Players can buy up to 36 tickets per game.

After logging in, the main lobby retains the nice, classy look from the homepage. From the lobby, you can easily click through to the bingo room, play other games or view your account.

Once in the bingo room you'll find it very simple to get started. You'll be greeted by a wonderful team of CMs who really are a credit to the site. It's so nice to see such vibrant and friendly employees of a site – it gives me a lot of confidence.

Purchasing tickets is easy by clicking a ticket and the choosing how many. It's easy to see the total cost and everything is very straightforward.

The excellent thing about Crown Bingo is the number of players, not too big, not too small. On an evening you'll find around 120-150 players in playing bingo meaning you have a good chance of winning with a full houses paying out over £100. One thing I particularly liked about Crown was the sorting feature. This enables the user to sort all cards in order and thus making it easier to see what numbers you need to win – after seeing this on Crown I feel particularly let down when other sites do not include this feature!

Chat Room
As I've said, bingo chat room is vibrant and friendly and there's a CM working from 9am till 1am. CM's play cash prize chat games continually throughout their shift. This is another of Crown’s strengths – many chat games are played giving players lots of opportunity to boost there balance. The chat interface allows people to add friends (who they can PM) and also to block chat. Crown also offers the user the chance to change his/her chat name – a nice little touch when you need a change of luck!

Jackpots
Crown offers two jackpots. The Cash Cow jackpot is currently over £17,000 and is growing at over £100 everyday. I can see this jackpot getting won soon and someone walking away very happy indeed. A full house in under 34 calls scoops the lot, even if it's from a 5p ticket! There's also a very winnable progressive jackpot which is currently at £750. You need a full house in under 48 calls to win. You win a % of the jackpot depending on the cost of your ticket, but it's won virtually everyday which is a lovely touch from a bingo site.

Promotions
There's a 100% first time deposit bonus up to £250, which like most of Crown's offerings is very generous. The good news is the cash match terms are very friendly meaning you can cash out your winnings with relative ease.

For all new players there's a complimentary £1 added to your account with no credit card details or deposit required. This is a great way to test out a site and you can even withdraw your winnings from the pound, which again, is a great touch,

There is also a monthly ‘Team Bingo’ competition. This rather unique idea pits teams of 3 bingo players against each other and the team scoring the most points in a month wins a cash prize.

Crown Bingo also offer a £10 refer-a-friend bonus, just email the support after your friend has joined and they'll credit your account.

Click here to visit to Crown Bingo's Promotions page

Special Bingo sessions:
Monday and Thursday between 6pm-9pm are Team Bingo sessions. All are welcome to join in just click here full details.

Discount Tuesday – Every Tuesday morning between 9am and midday all tickets are 5p or 10p with guaranteed prize pools.

Wednesday – It's quiz night hosted by Crown Bingo's wonderful CM Hopp and CM Tunaman. Cash and sport prizes given away all night. Be in the chat room by 6pm to play.

Thursday – Over £3,000 in guaranteed pay outs every Thursday at Crown Bingo between 8pm and 11pm. Tickets start at just 10p.

Casino games and slots
There's a whole host of excellent and exciting games to play as well. A full suite of casino games including roulette, blackjack, stud poker, lucky dice and baccarat to some very well thought out slot games such as bubbleball and racecaster. Whoulette was my favourite – a 'Guess who?' style roulette game!

Support
Crown offers live chat and email support and is operated from the UK. I find this comforting as it's nice to know the person dealing with any problem you may have isn't half way across the world. I found in the email support to be super fast and efficient – they actually solved my bogus issue and even emailed me back the following day to make sure everything was ok – great stuff Crown. The support desk is manned from 8am till 1 am so it’s rather comprehensive for a UK site.