About The Hippodrome Online Casino
The Hippodrome Online Casino is a Betway powered slots and casino site. It is the online home of the famous Leicester Square casino, located in London, which has been serving tourists and locals alike for many years (and 24 hours a day at that!).
Hippodrome had a slightly unruly design on desktop, which echoed the slightly labyrinthine feel once your in the actual Hippodrome at 4am on a Thursday morning. However, the designers didn’t let this spill out onto the mobile version. Thankfully, the mobile site was always clean and tidy, with a suitably lavish feel facilitated by the gold lettering and the resplendent image of the Victorian building’s façade in the background.
As of 2024, they brought the whole site in line with the company’s shiny, new UK online casinos Jackpot City and Spin Casino. They revamped and modernised the design as well as bringing the highly attractive welcome offer in line with those sites. The glow up of these casinos in the past few years has been one of the most impressive success stories on the market. These sites and their top notch welcome offers are like catnip to players!
Betway, the site’s operator, is extremely well-known in the online gaming industry having launched in 2006 and spreading worldwide. It’s fair to say that the Hippodrome casino is a more UK-centric venture because the venue has a special place in the hearts of many generations of Brits (including those who remember it as a theatre and/or a nightclub!)
To be honest, the next step is the bricks and mortar venue getting a glow up like the online site just so it’s not left behind!
Bonuses & Promotions
The welcome bonus, pre revamp, was a fairly average match bonus with wagering requirements in the upper levels of what we would usually expect these days. However, now that they offer the match bonus plus no wagering free spins that they had on their sister sites, the Hippodrome has been brought squarely into the modern era of fair bonusing.
Obviously, we’ve just heard that bonusing will change in the UK towards the end of 2025, but we think sites like Hippodrome are in a fairly strong spot to weather that particular storm.
We do also like that the site has a daily bonus spins offer as long as you reach the required deposit and playthrough amounts.
Slots & Games
Before the upgrade, a time we’re now calling “pre-vamp” (yes, I just came up with that on the spot!), there were around 450 top games available at the Hippodrome. While this was an okay number, and you’re likely to find many of your favourite slots, competitor sites tend to have numbers way north of that these days.
We’re pleased to see that current figure (post-vamp), is knocking on the door of a thousand titles. On the homepage, they have a cool top 10 most popular slots of the moment feature. At the time of upgrading this review, the top 10 is:
- Age of Conquest: Diamonds & Dragons
- Flaming Joker
- Big Bass Splash
- Big Bass: Return to the Races
- Links of Glory
- Sweet Beast
- Captain Bones: Big Bounty
- Big Bass Bonanza
- Bigger Bass Splash
- Cleopatra
A super cool feature is that you can play remotely on actual tables live at the Hippodrome Casino, 24 hours a day!
Also, we like that the site has a complete list of slot RTPs in alphabetical order. The theoretical percentage pay-out page is a great way to see what you can expect to get in return on any given slot (at least on a statistical basis – of course it may not pan out like that in the real world!)
Final Thoughts
The Hippodrome is a British institution and we’re pleased to finally have it listed on the site. Betway wouldn’t necessarily be our first guess for the operator of this great casino brand, but from what we can tell, they’re doing a pretty decent job. This is especially true since the grand upgrade to mirror wildly successful casinos like Jackpot City, which arrived in the UK like a bolt of lightning.
We’re also a big fan of the live feature where you can play actual Hippodrome games remotely. That’s exactly the sort of unique selling point that the online version of a very famous physical casino can offer. Very cool!
