Exclusive Casino Review

Sup, my blokes and sheilas? This is your boy, Derrick, coming at ya with another casino review.

Today, I bring to you an exclusive casino review of – drumroll, please – Exclusive Casino.

When my bros at the office told me to review Exclusive Casino, I genuinely thought that I had gotten some fancy invitation to gambler’s heaven. But it turns out, it’s just a fancy name. Darn!

So, is there anything truly exclusive about this joint? Honestly, mates, not much. But all is not lost. In this Exclusive Casino Review, we’ll be examining all the nooks and crannies of this establishment to see if they can give a bang for your buck.

About Exclusive Casino

Just like a lot of modern online casinos nowadays, Exclusive Casino doesn’t hit you with all its games at once. Upon my initial visit, the first thing I saw was just what most players seem to be gunning for: the welcome bonus. It may not be the best, but it was enough – as Brits would say – to tickle my fancy.

I am a simple man who appreciates simple things. Players can check out all the hottest available bonuses as well as the game categories in a jiffy. As for the popular games, you just gotta scroll down a bit to unearth them.

While I appreciate the subtlety of the homepage, I keep getting bugged by the lack of jackpots. Lately, I’ve been seeing a lot of online casinos that have this option the second you enter their webpage. Dawg, I’m a busy bloke, I got casinos to review and I want to go where the action is. A thick n juicy jackpot would have been helpful, that’s fasho!

The website also has a very casual tone about it. But don’t get fooled by this. Exclusive Casino is legit and has a license issued by the government of Curacao. All of its descriptions are written using comprehensive lingo and they do their best to sound cool and inviting. With that said, a lot of things weren’t very well explained on the website, such as bonuses or the VIP system, which is kind of a bummer.

Overall, Exclusive Casino looks neat and my first impressions were generally positive despite a few shortcomings. After all, this is a casino review, exclusive for you – of course, there are going to be some shortcomings. We’re all human.

Restricted Countries

To be frank, it really sucks when I have to list all the available countries that aren’t allowed to play in an online casino. Fortunately, Exclusive Casino has one of the shortest lists of restricted countries I’ve ever seen in my time reviewing casinos.

Rejoice, fellow players from the United States and the United Kingdom because Exclusive Casino is waiting for you with open doors. I know a lot of my friends from the United States and the United Kingdom have been complaining about the lack of online casinos available to them.

Here is the list of restricted countries and here’s hoping that your country isn’t on it:

Israel, Poland, India, Hungary, Malaysia, Russian Federation, Ukraine, Belarus, China, Romania, Costa Rica.

This casino has quite a few bonuses to offer its players. They have the usual welcome and monthly bonus, they also have seasonal bonuses and events that come and go. Something to note is that in order to claim most of these bonuses you have to enter deposit bonus codes on your account page. Another thing to note is that most of these bonuses consist of match bonuses and free spins.

No Deposit Bonus

Ah, the dying art of the no deposit bonus. I’m really happy that not all online casinos have abandoned this thing of beauty. While it’s not a lot, it’s really cool to receive 25 free spins just by creating an account. Yup, no strings attached. Just make an account and the spins will be automatically added to the associated game. Fair dinkum.

Welcome Bonus

In my not-so-humble opinion, the welcome bonus is what usually makes or breaks an online casino. Even when I don’t like a casino, I’ll usually stick around until I deplete that welcome bonus.

The Casino proudly boasts a 250% welcome bonus. Yup, UP TO 250% POKIE MATCH bonus. This might be a bit of a turn-off for some (I know, I prefer to just get a percentage boost on my deposit amount) but it can be quite rewarding if you can get those pokies to match. However, this is where the bonus ends.

In order to take advantage of this bonus, you need to wager $25+ (it has a 30x wagering requirement in order to withdraw it) and enter the code “CADABRA” on your account page.

Monthly Bonus

I imagine that the welcome bonus may not be enough for some of you. If you need more bonuses to enhance your chances of winning, you can take advantage of the monthly bonus.

Depending on your deposit amount, you can earn up to a 175% match bonus and up to 50 free spins (on the Vegas Lux pokie). Enter the code “VEGAS” when making a deposit in order to take advantage of this bonus. Here are the fine details:

• Deposit amount $50+ 125% Pokies match + 20 Free Spins
• Deposit amount $75+ 135% Pokies match + 30 Free Spins
• Deposit amount $100+ 155% Pokies match + 40 Free Spins
• Deposit amount $150+ 175% Pokies match + 50 Free Spins

Some people might not like the fact that in order to get the bonus, you get to enter a code, but trust me when I say that deposit bonus codes get the job done at this online casino. It’s a small effort, but a grand reward.

Comp Points

Comp Points are Exclusive Casino’s version of loyalty points. After playing games at Exclusive Casino players will be awarded a number of points, depending on how much they wagered. You can exchange these points on your account page for the same currency you used for wagering. 100 comp points = $1.

VIP Program

Good news! Exclusive Casino does have a VIP loyalty program. Bad news? Nobody knows how to get it and what it does? Ok, maybe that’s not entirely true but it sure feels that way sometimes.

Presumably, after you’ve obtained a whole bunch of Comp points, you will get invited to become a VIP. As a VIP you will obtain more points for playing casino games at Exclusive Casino and a higher withdrawal limit. There also appear to be different tiers of VIP bonuses but these all seem like fairy tales as the website never explains how to become part of their VIP program.

Ok, Bros, listen up, when it comes to Free Spins Exclusive Casino, the situation is not too inspiring.  Sure, this joint is not your casino of the month candidate, but it’s more than decent.

First off with their no deposit bonus you get just by creating an account is a nice 25 free spins. 25 free spins just like that. You got to love that, man.

Second, they have a monthly bonus with loads of free spins. The amount of free spins depends on how much you deposit.

• $50 gives you 20 free spins
• $75 is a respectable 30 free spins
• $100 sends your way a desirable 40 free spins
• $150 you get a more than decent 50 free spins

Looking at the game categories, you will be able to see the usual suspects: pokies, table games, video poker and specialty games.

With only about 800 games, it doesn’t seem like Exclusive Casino is going to win any awards for quantity. In terms of quality, the situation is, well, about the same. While Exclusive Casino does have a bunch of fun pokies, there aren’t too many famous ones (no “Book of Dead”).

Now, your boy Derrick is more of a roulette kind of guy, so I tend to stick with the table games and, wouldn’t you know it, there are a total of 7 roulette tables. It ain’t much different in the other categories too, but let’s take a more detailed look.

Pokies

There are roughly 700 pokies games and, as I said above, not too many famous ones. You aren’t able to try any of them until you’ve created an account, so keep that in mind.

Out of all Exclusive Casino games, pokies are almost exclusively made by Real Time Gaming software developers. Now, seeing as how I didn’t have my baby “Book of Dead”, I had to try something else.

Well, I noticed that this casino website was hyping up this Vegas Lux pokie and how it’s always giving free spins for it, so I figured I may as well spend those free spins. Vegas Lux was a lot of fun and I actually ended up spending more time on it than I had thought.

I also took a few spins of Cash Bandits. This one is just dumb fun and I end up chuckling more than going for a win. How can I win when all I see are bonus doughnuts, money bag bonuses and cartoon characters. I didn’t win much, but at least I had a lot of fun. I’ll take that win.

Then, I noticed Princess Jasmine from Aladdin. Why you gotta do this to me Exclusive Casino? You know I can’t resist my childhood crush!

Anyway, Princess Jasmine was just lying there, looking all fine, telling me to enter one of their seasonal bonuses and try out Aladdin’s Wishes pokie. Who am I to refuse an animated lady? I went there and was immediately disappointed. Bloody hell.

The Aladdin’s Wishes pokie doesn’t feature the iconic Disney heroes but just cheap knock-off look-alikes. The pokies were fun, sure, but I was disappointed that the REAL Princess Jasmine beckoned me to play that game.

Table Games

You know your boy Derrick ain’t impressed when he can count the exact number of games in a category. With only 21 games, it wasn’t a good feeling, to say the least. A single roulette game, a couple of blackjack games and few other games like craps. I’m sorry, this is simply not enough.

Video Poker

As much as I would love to fill every single online casino with hundreds of different roulette games, I’m smart enough to realize that just isn’t the case. Table games are usually an afterthought, just like anything else that isn’t pokies.

Luckily, whenever table games fail me, Video poker usually comes to save the day. I was just feeling really down because of the lack of Roulette tables at Exclusive Casino so I thought I’d play something new with cards.

Sure, Texas Hold em is always fun but I figured I may as well play something new so I booted up Deuces Wild. Ok, now this video poker game was fun. I think I’m finally starting to understand why John from the office likes these so much.

With that said, serious video poker players probably won’t find that much to do with only 16 video poker game. There’s only so many times that you can play same Texas hold em and Deuces Wild game.

Specialty Games

Specialty Games? What’s special about them? Honestly, I’m not sure. There are a total of 10 games in this category and 3 of them are roulette.

The other suspects are Bingo, Keno, Sic bo and a few other weird ones. Again, I don’t see why you have to put Sic Bo as a Specialty game. I think they ought to have put these in the table games department. Maybe I just don’t get what’s special about these games.

Live Casino Games

This category consists of 4 roulette tables, 2 blackjacks, 1 baccarat and 1 super 6 games. That’s it. While I’m thankful that roulette tables win by default in this category, I’m guessing casino players who prefer this type of gambling won’t get a good kick out of this.

Exclusive Casino brags about how their casino runs well on a mobile device and how it’s easy to use. Fortunately for them, Exclusive Casino is optimized to run well on both phones and tablets.

So if you are a player who likes his/her gaming on the go, you should be happy to know that Exclusive Casino does run well on a handheld device. While I usually use my super big monitor to watch those balls spin, I did try it on my tiny Samsung Galaxy screen. It gets the job done and I was able to play a few games of poker using my phone.

Instant Play

If you don’t like gaming through your browser you can install the Instant Play program on your Windows and access the entire casino from your desktop. All you need is Macromedia Flash Player and Internet Explorer… Ummm, I’ll stick with the browser version, thanks.

There aren’t too many payment methods available at Exclusive Casino but, chances are, you probably have at least one of these methods to use. It’s interesting to note that while Exclusive Casino accepts BitCoins as a deposit method, it doesn’t let you make a withdrawal in BitCoins.

Deposit methods: Visa, MasterCard, BitCoin, Secure Payment Voucher

Withdrawal methods: Visa, MasterCard, Wire transfer

Withdrawal times: 1 per week, 3-7 working days

Accepted Currencies

I’ll just cut to the chase here. They do an ok job by accepting: AUD, USD, EUR, CAD, ZAR.

It’s time to get serious! No matter how much of a badass a casino might be, I’m not stepping in there if the customer support is not on a required level. Yeah, your day can be ruined easily if you actually manage to win a game of poker only to realize that your password or email address was hacked and that customer support doesn’t want to do anything about it.

Luckily, this isn’t the case with Exclusive Casino.

Besides email support, players have the Live chat option available on the homepage, which is always a good sign. As always, I had to have my regular live chat with online customer support to see if they know how to do a good job. I didn’t really have an issue, but I didn’t want to make up a random question. So, I did this.

I went and read through the casino website FAQ and found out that there is an option to turn OFF bonuses. I just had to ask the chat support why anyone would want to do that. Turns out, some people hate the pop-ups and dealing with all the bonus offers and whatnot so they just have them turned off. Regardless, live chat support was friendly and helpful.

If you are sceptical about the legitimacy of this online casino, you can ask customer support about the details and they will clear things up for you. They will say something like:

Exclusive Casino is licensed and regulated by Curacao, Netherlands Antilles under the relevant laws of the Gaming Ordinance for the purposes of operating and offering internet gambling services. Yeah, I know it sounds boring, but it’s nice to know that you are playing in a safe environment.

Available Languages

While the chat support seems to only operate in English. They have a contact phone number for players from the United States, the United Kingdom, and France.

I gotta be frank, Exclusive Casino does a lot of things the way it should be done, which I cannot say for numerous online casinos today. It has good live chat customer support, it offers a no-deposit bonus, and the casino website is neat and organized.

Everything else, in my opinion, could use an upgrade. There is a good foundation there for sure, but now they gotta build the casino vertically. At the moment, from what I can gather, the casino lacks certain things: different software developers, table and poker games, a bigger welcome bonus, and more bonuses in general. That, and a properly explained VIP loyalty system. A jackpot category wouldn’t hurt either.

As it is now, I think Exclusive Casino is worth an occasional visit (if nothing, you can at least claim the monthly bonus). But we’ll leave it up to you to decide if this is going to be your go-to casino or just another pit stop in the sea of online casinos.

As always, we got you, Bro!