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Gala Bingo

Gala Bingo

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Gala Bingo Review


Sue Dawson

Rating: 4.2/5

Rating: 4.2/5

Gala Bingo is the Entain site that’s most focused on bingo. There’s Deal Or No Deal, Coronation Street and other TV Specials, daily free bingo and penny bingo, big money games and a nightly live stream.  Our exclusive welcome offer gives you a huge bingo bonus to try it all out.

Gala Bingo

About Gala Bingo

Gala Bingo is a household name in the UK thanks to the extremely well known chain of bingo halls that bore the Gala name for more than 25 years. That came to an abrupt end when the bingo halls were sold in 2015 and rebranded in 2018 and these days, Gala Bingo is an online only brand owned by iGaming giant Entain. Sister sites Coral Bingo and Ladbrokes Bingo retain a bricks and mortar UK presence in the form of betting shops.

After years as a Virtue Fusion bingo site, Gala Bingo moved on to Entain’s excellent proprietary bingo platform in July 2022, joining the other two brands and Foxy Bingo. The very same week, Entain launched their own 75 and 90 ball versions of the classic Deal or No Deal Bingo game ensuring that Gala players could continue to enjoy this very popular bingo variant.

Bingo Games at Gala

The bingo rooms at Gala Bingo include several types of bingo that are Entain recreations of Gala exclusives from the Virtue Fusion days:

  • As previously mentioned, Deal Or No Deal Bingo
  • Coronation Street Bingo (a 90 ball variant)
  • The Chase Bingo & Emmerdale Bingo – these two 90 ball games take it in turns to run in the TV Specials room
  • Bingo Beats (a 50 ball multi stake single ticket bingo game)

There’s also the newer Entain 75 ball special Slingo Bingo, 5 line bingo, regular 50 ball bingo, 80 ball bingo 30 ball (speed) bingo and several 90 ball rooms, one of which has a live stream every evening.

Those on a budget are catered for with plenty of cheap bingo; one of the Bingo Beats rooms has a 2p stake level one of the 90 ball rooms has all tickets priced at 1p or 2p each plus the opportunity, in some games, to win some or all of the ticket price back by playing the free Whack A Bingo feature game.

There’s lots of liquidity in the Entain network, enabling them to run big money games with prize pools in the thousands of pounds. But not all of the rooms have thousands of players – there’s plenty of quieter rooms and quieter times of day when you can have a better chance of winning than when it’s super busy.

Gala also run free to enter bingo tournaments (at the time of writing, each lasts an hour) You claim free bingo tickets to play in a special room where all the prizes are tournament points. Score highly enough in the tournament and you’ll win free tickets to be used in their regular bingo rooms.

Other Games At Gala

Gala – and other Entain sites – excel not just at bingo, but in the size and variety of the slot games selection; there’s a massive range of more than 1600 games on offer including many exclusives. For example, there’s various slot games themed on The Chase, Coronation St and Emmerdale and a whole series of Big Banker slots. And there’s a host of evergreen favourites such as Fishin’ Frenzy, Double Bubble, Fluffy, Rainbow Riches, Big Bad Wolf, Immortal Romance, The Goonies….the list goes on.

The progressive jackpots are particularly impressive; they include Jackpot King, Red Tiger Daily Jackpots, Age of the Gods, Power Play Jackpots, IGT MegaJackpots, Kingdoms Rise, Jackpot Giant, Gladiator, Sporting Legends, Eyecon Mega Jackpot, Pragmatic Play’s Jackpot Play and a sizeable Entain exclusive jackpot including Book of Myths and Loot’en Khamun.

As well as slot games, there’s more than 40 Slingo games in their own area in the lobby. Scratchcards also have a lobby area and it’s here that you’ll find other instant win games such as video bingo and Lucky Taps as well as the actual scratchcards.

Yet a third lobby area is for live casino game shows by Evolution, Playtech and Pragmatic Play, including several Entain exclusives plus bingo and lotto games such as Mega Ball and Vegas Ball Bonanza. You can also access various live roulette games from this part of the site.

You can find even more slot and casino games in the Gala Spins and Gala Casino tabs. These used to be separate sites but now you can play them all with the same wallet and login and switch seamlessly between them without logging out; this does mean that you can only claim one welcome offer across the three brands, so choose wisely .

Like other Entain sites, Gala run free to play slot tournaments every day with free spins on Entain exclusive slot games to be won

Other Things To Consider

Gala’s mobile service has won awards and comes with apps to make login hassle free. The Gala Bingo mobile apps were updated the day of the platform move but one problem that was remarked upon by players was that slot games were not accessible from the mobile bingo rooms. This has now been fixed with the latest bingo lobby update which adds a number of other enhancements including improved chat and status report on how many other players are 1TG or 2TG.

Gala have long had a reputation for looking after their customers. They are constantly running player promotions and some of these have been in aid of charities. One thing that Gala have been really good at historically is thinking up promotions which offer prizes that money can’t buy – from tickets to the Gala VIP Christmas party to a guest appearance on Emmerdale for the winner’s pet. Although these days the promotions are mostly wheel spinner bonus games and the prizes are mostly cash, free spins and free bingo tickets, they still run some innovative promotions such as “All The Calls” where players had to identify all the bingo calls referenced in the Gala Bingo TV ad.

Final Thoughts

Leaving the Virtue Fusion bingo platform was a bold move. Bingo players can be quite resistant to change and there was a risk that much of the player base would change to another Virtue Fusion site rather than stay with Gala. But in fact, the Entain bingo product has turned out to be so good that Gala Bingo is a perfect destination for bingo and slots players alike.

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Key Information


  • No Deposit Offer
    None
  • Bingo Bonus
    600% on 1st deposit and playthrough (on bingo) of £10 only
  • Minimum Deposit
    £10 to claim this offer.
  • Other Bonuses

    Access to 4 hours of free bingo a day in the Newbie Room for 3 days after registration (bingo bonus prizes)

  • Bonus Expiry Info
    7 days
  • Bingo Wagering Requirements
    4 x bonus
  • Order of Funds Usage
    Bonus is used before any subsequent deposits
  • Payment Methods
    Debit Card, PayPal, Skrill, paysafecard, Trustly, Apple Pay, Neteller
  • Maximum Withdrawal
    None
  • Withdrawal Processing Time
    2-5 days
  • Other Withdrawal Restrictions
    Deposit made with e-wallets (including Paypal), Paysafe, prepaid cards and some other debit cards are not eligible for the welcome bonus.
  • Any Caps on Winnings
    None
  • Safer Gambling Provision

    Entain’s Responsible Gambling section is one of the most helpful and comprehensive there is; it includes additional tools such as Curfew (block deposits at specified times and/or on specified days of the week), loss limits and stake limits (set maximum spin value).  All parts of the Gala site are covered by LC International’s Advanced Level 3 certification under the Safer Gambling Standard.

  • Software
    Entain
  • Network
    Entain
  • Games
    Ash Gaming, Barcrest, Big Time Gaming, Blueprint, Eyecon, IGT, Inspired Gaming, Microgaming, Net Ent, PlayNGo, Playtech, Pragmatic Play, Push Gaming, Quickspin, Red Tiger, SG, Slingo Originals, Yggdrasil
  • Date Established
    July, 2012
  • UK License Holder
    LC International Limited
  • UK License Reference Number
    54743
  • Insolvency Protection
    High Protection

3 thoughts on “Gala Bingo

    1. Assuming that you’ve received the £50 bingo bonus from the welcome offer, you will have to play through 4x your bonus, so £200 on bingo before you can withdraw your winnings.

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