Sun Bingo Review

Sun Bingo was launched in 2006 and is part of News UK Group which also operates The Sun newspaper. It provides an online bingo gaming platform for UK players, and in 2015, it joined the Virtue Fusion network under a five-year deal between Playtech and News UK Group. In 2018, the brand became the official sponsor of The Jeremy Kyle Show.

Sun Bingo has become a mecca for fans of online slots, scratch cards, and bingo games, and thanks to its lively and fun-loving chat moderators, it was given an award for the Best Chat Team by WhichBingo in 2014.

Over the past few months, the site has gained even more players thanks to its humorous new TV ad campaign and its catchy slogan, “Are you gonna bingo?”

The Sun Bingo website and mobile apps use the same red-and-white colour scheme as the Sun newspaper, which helps newcomers to instantly feel at home. And, to make newbies even more comfortable, there’s a Learner Room which allows every who registers an account to enjoy seven days of free bingo and the chance to play for a share of £1,500 in cash prizes without having to make a deposit.

The Community page allows you to get to know your fellow players and chat hosts, learn the meanings behind WTG and WD in the Chat Lingo guide, read about the latest winners, catch up with the most recent site announcements, and follow the brand via Twitter or Facebook.

As a Virtue Fusion bingo site, Sun Bingo boasts an impressive choice of rooms that run 90-ball, 80-ball, 75-ball, and themed games around-the-clock. Plus, there’s an exclusive room called Winning Headlines, as well as an online slot with the same name.

The site’s special offers and competitions are usually seasonal, so it’s sensible to check the Promotions page every time that you log in to your account. At the time of our last visit, there was a dream £5k holiday to New York up for grabs, a £10,000 slots prize draw, a free Whack-A-Bingo Christmas Edition game, and a £280k Christmas Countdown series of games.

The brand’s iOS and Android apps make it simple to play your favourite games on the move, and you can even choose to fund your account using Apple Pay alongside other banking methods such as Visa, Paypal, Skrill, and Neteller.

Sun Bingo is licensed and regulated by both the UK Gambling Commission and the Alderney Gambling Control Commission.

When you sign up at Sun Bingo, you will qualify for £30 of bonuses when you deposit £10 or more to your new account and spend it on bingo tickets. The popular welcome offer gives you a £20 bingo bonus (with just x3 wagering requirements) and a £10 side games bonus (with x30 wagering requirements).

To get this bonus simply sign up, make a deposit for £10 and spend it on bingo tickets. The welcome bonus will be credited to your account automatically. the bonus is available to spend on all bingo rooms at Sun Bingo. To use the Side Games Bonus, you need to click on the ‘Play Slots’ tab in the main navigation bar and play on any game under ‘Side Games’ column. Or go to the Bingo Lobby, click ‘Games’ and select the ‘Top Slots’ tab.

New players (N.B., both funded and non-funded) can also visit the Learner Room to play free games between midday until 2 PM and 6 PM until 8 PM for seven days after registering, and over the seven-day schedule, there’s £1,500 in cash prizes up for grabs.

Sun bingo has some pretty decent free bingo rooms for players to take advantage of. Sun offers 14 games everyday for free with a total of £280 to be won. The free bingo rooms are open daily between 12-12.30PM and 5.30-6.30PM.

The Sun Loyalty Shop is where you can spend all of the loyalty points you accrue while playing at the site. You gain one point for every £1 spent on bingo and one point for every £5 wagered on games. Depending on your current loyalty level, you can pick up bingo and all games bonuses for as little as 75 LPs.

There are five loyalty levels (Opal, Sapphire, Emerald, Ruby, and Diamond).

There’s also a VIP scheme which you may be invited to join depending on how much you spend and how often you play. There are four VIP tiers – Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum – and at the highest tier, you get access to a personal account manager, 10% daily cashback (up to a maximum of £1,000), the chance to earn up to £250 in bonus funds through the weekly 50% deposit match offer, free VIP games, birthday bonuses, VIP hospitality such as race days, spa treatments, holidays, and music concerts, and free entry to prize draws.

You can play at Sun Bingo at any time on your mobile or tablet simply by typing the site’s full address into your device’s web browser address bar. However, you can also access all of your favourite rooms, side games, and slots by downloading the dedicated Sun Bingo app from the iTunes Store (for iOS devices) or the Google Play Store (for Android devices).

All of the site’s games are optimised for mobile play, and you can make deposits and withdrawals, earn loyalty points, and participate in the latest promotions just as easily as desktop players.

There are many different types of bingo to discover, including 90-ball, 75-ball, pattern, 80-ball, and Session games in rooms like Showboat, Cash Cave, Rapid, Value, Glamour, Brit50, Cabaret, and Jazz. Plus, as the Sun Bingo is a proud member of the Virtue Fusion network, you can also enjoy fun, themed online bingo variants like Deal or No Deal, Bouncy Balls, Age of the Gods, Winning Headlines, and Cash Cubes.

On the first Friday of every Monday, the Glamour Room hosts the £20,000 Prize Night special, and on the third Friday of the month, roomies can play for huge cash prizes in the £25,000 Deal or No Deal Night event. The remaining two weekends are taken up by £10k Rainbow Riches and the £500k Weekend.

All funded players can enjoy free games between 12 PM and 12.30 PM and 5.30 PM and 6 PM, and there is an abundance of cheap games to take advantage of too in the site’s penny games and Value Room.

As well as an impressive number of side games, Sun Bingo also has a well-stocked games lobby which features scores of top slots such as Age of the Gods – Lord of Lightning, Castle Cashalot, Treasure Time Traveller, Wintry Wonderland, Tiki Paradise – Masks of Mayhem, Fluffy Favourites Fairground, Cleopatra, Winning Headlines Blitz, Pet Luck, and Cash Cubes. There are network-exclusive slots on offer too including Having a Ball, Alice Adventure, Happy Birds, Dolphin’s Island, and Lucky Leprechaun as well as jackpot slots such as Clover Rollover, The Winnings of Oz, Fairest of them All, Big Top Tombola, Bounty of the Beanstalk, and Jewel Mine.

There are scratch cards like Sleepy Barista, Ladies Night, Beat the Banker, Game Set Cash, Spa Break, Ghosts of Christmas, and Arabian Delights too, and providing that you meet the qualifying criteria, you can play the Winning Headlines Free Scratch and Mystic Meg Free Scratch daily.

The Sun Bingo customer service team operates a live chat service and telephone support between 8 AM and 1 AM, seven days a week. You can also get in touch via email, plus there’s a Getting Started guide and FAQ on the “Contact Us” page.

You can fund your Sun Bingo account using Apple Pay, Visa, Visa Electron, Visa Debit, Maestro, MasterCard, Paysafecard, Paypal, Neteller or Skrill, and the minimum deposit amounts is £5, max is £1000.

To make a deposit simply log-in and click the “Deposit” link at the top of the page, then select your payment method from the drop down box. Complete the form to finish making the deposit.

Once you submit a withdrawal request, it usually takes a couple of days for it to be processed and the funds sent to your chosen account. The minimum amount you are able to withdraw is £5, and the maximum is £50,000 (or £5,500 for PayPal).