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About Mecca Bingo Casino

The Mecca for all Bingo players with a side interest in slots, Mecca Bingo is the online arm of one of UK’s oldest Bingo operators bearing the same name. Owned by the Rank Group, the brand that also owns the Grosvenor casino network, Mecca Bingo is a platform aimed at local players who are looking for a name they can trust in the online world. It is a colorful world of online slots, bingo games, and targeted promotions open only to players from the UK and Ireland and a site licensed by the UKGC. If you’re interested in learning more about Mecca Bingo, check out the full review below.

Casino Games Overview

Mecca Bingo is sort of a hybrid platform for those who are into both Bingo games and slots. Split into two sections, the site offers an individual page where you can browse the different Bingo rooms as well as an individual “Slots” page. The slots page is powered by several known casino game makers, including NetEnt, WMS, IGT, NextGen, and Red Tiger Gaming, and also features some table games apart from slot machines.

For Bingo players, the site offers pretty much what you can expect to find in a land-based Bingo parlour, i.e. 75, 80, and 90 ball variants. The options include classic rooms like the Dancing Queen and Jump and Jive, specialties like the Deal or No Deal and the Turbo 90, as well as the exclusive X Factor Bingo game with custom promotions. Draws are offered every day of the week starting at 1:00 AM, even for as little as 1-5p.

On the other hand, if you’re into casino games you can head down to the Slots menu to find Mecca Bingo’s virtual casino offer. The majority of the games here are slots which range from old school games like Da Vinci Diamonds to very modern slots like Jungle Spirit and Hansel and Gretel. You can also find some licensed games like Ted among the menu as well as mega-jackpots like the Cleopatra, Mega Moolah, and Top Cat.

The casino section also features Mecca and Players Suite Blackjack, Double Bonus and Mecca Roulette, Hi Lo Joker, as well as Mecca’s live dealer casino tables which are hosted by UK dealers. Other than these games, the only things remaining at the platform are some half a dozen scratch cards.

Mobile Casino and Games

Mecca Bingo, like many casino platforms today, provides a fully functional mobile platform where you can find the majority of the site’s game offer. The mobile site can be accessed directly on your Android, Windows, or iOS mobile device without downloading anything and it comes with an easy to use layout that will get you playing in no time. Naturally, almost the entire Bingo offer is to be found on the mobile site but you can also have a shot at most of the slot and table games. There are no mobile bonuses, however.

Payment Options

The available payment options here are Visa, MasterCard and Paysafe cards, as well as Neteller, Skrill, and PayPal. Deposits are processed fast by Mecca Bingo and come with no maximum or minimum limits stated by the site except for the £10 minimum needed to activate the bonus. But when it comes to withdrawals you might have to wait from 3 to 7 days, depending on the method, but also respect the £10 minimum limit and the maximum of £15,000 per day.

Customer Support

One great thing about this website is that they offer a full support service to their local users that is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The support can be reached either via the provided e-mail address, the UK telephone line or by using the live chat service on the website.

Mecca Bingo (formerly called Top Rank) is a UK-based company and operator of 76 bingo clubs located across major towns and cities. Mecca Bingo is owned by The Rank Group, which operates bingos, casinos and online gaming industries across Belgium, Spain and the UK. Rank Group also own Grosvenor Casinos and Enracha. Mecca Bingo was established in 1961, and its headquarters is in Maidenhead.^[1] An extension of the Mecca Bingo brand includes meccabingo.com and a number of mobile apps. Mecca Bingo is the largest National Bingo Game operator in the UK.

As of June 2015, Mecca Bingo’s revenue was recorded at £224.4 million, with an operating profit of £28.9 million.^[2] The Rank Group reports there are one million customers who visit Mecca each year, with £65.2 million revenue generated from digital. The Mecca network currently employs more than 11,000 people across the UK.^[3] Their halls host traditional and electronic versions of bingo, including slot-style games. Mecca are licensed and regulated by the UK Gambling Commission and the Alderney Gambling Control Commission.

History[edit]

Eric Morley, British TV host and founder of the Miss World pageant, is accredited with popularising the game of bingo in the United Kingdom during the early sixties, as a tactic to fill the UK’s dance halls. In 1952, he was Mecca's general manager of dancing, and was made a director in 1953. With Mecca, Morley helped to popularise bingo which was played at Mecca venues throughout the United Kingdom. He changed the company from a small catering and dancing firm into a leading entertainment and catering company in the UK. A director of the company from 1953 up until 1978, Morley left the business after a disagreement with its then parent company, Grand Metropolitan.^[4]

In 1990, the Rank Organisation made an offer of £512m to acquire Mecca Leisure Group. This was initially rejected, then accepted two months later.^[5] In 2007, Mecca Bingo and its parent company suffered significant losses, attributed to the implementation of the smoking ban in the UK. Rank shut nine Mecca Bingo clubs, with 230 people losing their jobs.^[6] In 2015, Mecca Bingo launched a marketing campaign featuring a twerking cactus. The campaign adverts helped to increase Mecca’s digital sales by 18 per cent, year on year, in the 20 weeks to 17 May.^[7]

Controversy[edit]

On 25 December 1997, members of the Muslim community in Luton, Bedfordshire, were outraged by a local bingo hall changing its name from ‘Top Rank’ to ‘Mecca,’ which is also the name of the holiest Islamic city. Protesters, angered by the link between the holy city and the practice of gambling, which is forbidden in Islam, threw bricks through the bingo hall’s windows, causing £3000 of damage.^[8] Subsequently company management said the 'Mecca' name would be dropped from the bingo hall as a result of the unrest and offence caused.^[9] However as of 2018, some 21 years on, the company's own branch locator on their website confirms that the Mecca brand is still being used in Luton.

In December 2015, Mecca Bingo was ordered to forfeit nearly £1 million after allowing a woman to spend up to £50,000 a month on her gambling addiction.^[10]

Awards[edit]

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Mecca Bingo was awarded ‘Bingo Operator of the Year’ at the 2016 International Gaming Awards.^[11] It won the same award in 2014 and 2015, with Rank Group also winning ‘Socially Responsible Operator of the Year Land Based’.^[12][13]

Mecca Bingo won two awards at the 2016 EGR Innovation and Marketing Awards:^[14] ‘Best Native App’ and ‘Innovation in Bingo’ for their Emoji Bingo game – an App that swaps bingo balls for emojis.

In 2017 Mecca Bingo won WhichBingo awards for Best Customer Services and Most Socially Responsible, along with the EGR award for Best Mobile Bingo Product.

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6. ^Kollewe, Julia (2007-03-03). 'Mecca Bingo halls struggle in face of all-out smoking ban'. The Guardian. ISSN0261-3077. Retrieved 2016-09-12.
7. ^'This is how a dancing cactus has helped boost business at Mecca bingo'. 2015-05-21. Retrieved 2016-09-12.
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