Fafabet

Fafabet's sportsbook bonus is different from most, offering 50% back on losses, up to a maximum of £50 as a free bet, plus a £20 casino bonus. Thus a player would have to bet and lose £100 to receive the maximum sum available. On paper, this looks to be a solid offer but how does it compare to similar bonuses?

The important points of a money-back welcome bonus are the percentage of losses returned and the maximum amount a player can receive. In terms of the percentage returned to players, Fafabet's 50% is good, but it is outstripped by Unibet, who offer a full 100% refund on losses in their sign-up offer.

In terms of the maximum amount that a player can be refunded, Fafabet's maximum of £50 is once again a decent amount, although it is usurped by Betzone, who offer a maximum of £60 as money back.

Overall, Fafabet's money-back sign-up bonus is excellent, if not the best. Also, some may prefer the more traditional "Bet And Get" offers that proliferate most bookmakers, so, If you are still on the fence about this promotion, check out our comprehensive list of bookmaker promotions here.

As well as a strong welcome bonus, Fafabet UK looks after ongoing players, with plenty of promotions for football and horse racing fans, along with tennis and esports.

Fafabet Horse Racing Promotions

There are usually four promotions across Fafabet's horse racing pages, with the now regular Best Odds Guaranteed, joined by Money Back If Beaten By The Favourite and Money Back If Beaten By A Head Or Less, which is always great to see.

Fafabet also does its best to encourage punters to have a crack at the U.S. horse racing markets, with a casino bonus of up to £10. Place bets on U.S. racing markets and receive 5% of total bets as a free casino bonus. It's not a huge amount, but it's good to see a bookie encouraging users to bet on other markets.

Fafabet Football Promotions

Football backers are also well looked after at Fafabet, with their "Create A Bet" bet builders offering both a £5 Free Bet When Betting £25 On Create A Bets and Money Back Up To £20 If One Leg Of Your Create A Bet Loses. 

Acca players can also get a Free Bet If A 3+ Acca Wins to a maximum of £50, along with a Bore Draw Refund if your match finishes 0-0.

And finally, players can earn a free bet on Football, with 5% of the previous day's football bet, given to players as free bets.

Tennis and E-Sports

A couple of other markets get similar treatment to racing and football, with tennis backers able to earn a free bet on winning doubles, trebles and accas, while Fafabet will pay on winners if a match ends with an opponent retiring hurt.

Fafabet also does its best to encourage punters to bet on e-sports markets, with a casino bonus of up to £10 available. Simply place bets on e-sports markets and receive 5% of total bets as a free casino bonus. 

Casino Promotions

And finally, away from sportsbook offers, Fafabet's casino also provides a handful of ongoing promotions.

Crazy Monday

Players can earn a 10% cash bonus of up to £25 on total returns on Monday. Simply stake a minimum of £10 on casino games and earn a bonus on net winnings!

Lucky Thursday

Get 10% cashback if you have no wins on Live Roulette. Simply stake at least £10 on Live Roulette on Thursdays and receive 10% on net losses as bonus funds.

Weekend Insurance

Get 5% on weekend casino losses as a free sports bet to a maximum of £100. Simply deposit a minimum of £10 and stake at least £100 or more on casino games on Saturday and Sunday, to receive 5% of your net losses as a free bet.

Fafabet offers the usual gamut of features when placing bets, which dovetails well with the aforementioned ongoing promotions for football and racing. Those looking for specific enhancements and promotions on matches and races will be a little disappointed but overall Fafabet makes up for that by providing good odds and enough options overall.

Create A Bet

Create A Bet is quite simply Fafabet's bet builder equivalent, offering all the functions associated with creating a specific match bet. This is available for major leagues in Europe, South America and Asia, along with lower leagues in the UK.

Fafabet's version, however, doesn't quite live up to the likes of Sky Bet or Paddy Power's offerings, with just 8-10 markets available to include within that bet option. I'm not sure why this is the case, considering that other brands provide over double the number of options, but the lack of choice is somewhat disappointing. 

The money back if one leg lets you down option is handy here, but barely makes up for the lack of markets to choose from.

In-Play Betting

In-play betting fairs a lot better at Fafabet, with plenty of markets available during games. To give some context, an Australian A-League fixture in the second half of play, had around 40 markets to bet upon, which is impressive, even compared to bigger brand bookies.

Along with football, in-play markets are available for Tennis, Cricket, Basketball, Golf, Snooker, Baseball, Table Tennis, E-sports and more. These sports vary in terms of markets available, but ultimately it is great to see so many sports covered by in-play betting on site.

Cash-Out

Fafabet like the majority of bookmakers, offers a solid cash-out experience, providing the option for a variety of sports and markets. If a bet has "three gold coins" next to it, it can be cashed out at any time.

Partial cash out is also available, for players wanting to free up winnings and still keep their bets running, with an option to select a specific amount to cash out available. Once again, this is available for a variety of specific single and multiple bets.

Fafabet offers a very good sportsbook service for players in general, I have found the site easy to use and navigate, adding them to my list of go-to bookmakers when I fancy a punt.

The sportsbook hosts over 30+ sports, including mainstays such as football, horse racing and tennis, right through to more niche sports such as ski jumping and water polo. Overall the sportsbook offers plenty for punters, although there is a little room for improvement, with the lack of enhancements or price boosts a noticeable absentee.

Navigation

Upon visiting the Fafabet website, it's clear that layout and ease of function have been prioritised. At the top of the page, scrolling banners show the day's big events and offers, usually featuring racing and football.

Players can find shortcuts at the top of the screen for Sports, In-Play, Virtuals, Casino & Live Casino pages, while account information can be accessed on the top right, hosting regular banking, security and help options for players.

The homepage offers plenty of shortcuts to various sports and events, with further customisation possible.

Sports are listed to the left side of the page, with individual sports able to be "starred" to appear at the top of the list for easy access once again. The betslip does appear on the right side of the main page, although it does arguably take up a little more real estate than it needs, especially when it is not in use, so a minimise option would be nice.

Scrolling down the page shows upcoming races and the leading contenders in the betting, with popular Create A Bets featured below. Players can instantly access live in-play options, covering any current market that is live, once again making navigation straightforward and simple.

Finding specific markets and bets per sport or match is relatively issue free, while a search function is a welcome addition. Pages loaded quickly and error free during the review and overall I cannot praise the functionality of the site, highly enough!

Placing Bets

Picking selections and placing bets is easy and straightforward, with the large betslip on permanent display to the right of the page.

Bet types appear as more selections are added, with forecasts, reverse forecasts, doubles, trebles, lucky 15's and more appearing depending on the selections made.

Fafabet's Create A Bet works well but can be more laborious than it needs to be, with each selection added to a list at the top, rather than the betting slip as you go, meaning I had to scroll up to review my selections before finally adding to my betslip. It's a minor issue overall, but something that can be simplified further for players.

New customers can claim up to £50 in free bets, plus a £20 casino bonus too!

How To Claim The Fafabet sign-up offer:

1. Click 'Claim' and create a Fafabet account.
2. Deposit and bet on Sportsbook markets of your choice at odds of evens 1/1 (2.00) or greater.
3. Upon settlement of a £10 qualifying bet, you'll receive a £5 free bet and a £5 Casino Bonus by tomorrow
4. Upon settlement of a £20 or more qualifying bet, you'll receive a £10 free bet and a £10 Casino Bonus by tomorrow.
5. Upon settlement of a £100 or more qualifying bet, you'll receive a £20 free bet and a £10 Casino Bonus by tomorrow.
6. If your Sportsbook account shows a net loss by the end of the first day (day ends at 23:59), you'll be awarded a Free Bet equivalent to 50% of the losses, up to £50, plus a £20 Casino Bonus.

• Live Streaming

Fafabet offers live streaming for horse racing and greyhounds. Users can watch UK & Irish racing coverage, along with worldwide horse racing events, where streams are available. As is the case with these streams, players must have placed a bet on a race to be able to view the content.

Outside of racing, there is nothing else on offer, with even e-sports being devoid of live coverage, which is unusual, as many bookies use Twitch streams to show the events in-play.

• Virtual Feed

Fafabet does offer a basic virtual feed representing what is going on in a particular event, although how detailed that is, is dependent on the event itself.  

For football, a visualisation of the pitch and the score is available, along with stats, live tables and head-to-head are also available to view, but in general, this is nowhere near as detailed as the likes of bet365 or Betway's visualisations.

A dedicated Fafabet app is only currently available on iOS devices at this current time. Unfortunately for Android users, the dedicated app has not been updated for quite some time, to the point that it is incompatible with my device, due to it "being made for an older version of Android"

The iOS app is very good, especially on iPhone, with all the betting functions available to desktop users, mimicked here, while also maintaining more data-hungry aspects such as live streaming of races without issue.

The Fafabet iOS app works well and it is hoped that owners TaichiTech Ltd can get the Android version up and running once again.

The layout is kept in line with the desktop site, with certain changes necessitated by the lack of screen real-estate, such as the betslip sitting at the bottom of the screen and fewer shortcuts available on screen at any one time.

Pages loaded and worked as intended, with no issues in making in-play bets, loading live streams and visiting various games on the casino side of the site. 

It has to be noted that on the iOS app store, the app has a rating of 3.5 out of 5 across 77 reviews, with many complaints aimed at delays to free bets and difficulties in receiving assistance. I have not encountered these issues myself, but it is worth taking these reviews and comments onboard when deciding on adding the iOS app to your device.

Fafabet has a fully integrated casino experience available to players, featuring over 1200+ games across slots, table games and its live casino, with plenty to play and enjoy.

SLOTS

Fafabet hosts just shy of 900 slots to play, with Jackpot games including the Mega Moolah and Megaways series of titles. The biggest jackpot currently available at the time of the review was sitting at around £38 million at the time of writing.

Those looking for smaller competitions can jump into regular Slots n' Wins tournaments, offering various prizes depending on where a player ranks at the end, while those looking for famous slots will find plenty on offer, with titles such as Thunderstruck, Wild Toro 2 and Blazing Bison among many top games to play.

Games load up quickly and can be viewed in full screen, while various options are available to players, including sound options, a replay function for that big win and a guide for each game, explaining how the slot works, the payout margins, winning lines and more.

In general, slot games work equally well on mobile devices via the app or browser, although there can be a minor delay to spins in my experience, which can be a little frustrating.

For slot players, Fafabet provides an excellent range of titles and a good overall experience.

Live Casino

Live casino games have become increasingly popular over the last 12-18 months and I'm pleased to say that Fafabet has embraced this growing trend, by featuring over 90 live games to play.

Many casino staples, such as roulette, baccarat, blackjack and craps are featured, along with more niche titles such as Bac Bo, Andar Bahar and Teen Patti too. Games feature knowledgeable hosts and dealers, with rules and how-to's available on each game for more novice players.

Those craving that "gameshow" feel are also well-catered for, with favourites such as Deal Or No Deal and Crazy Time among those available. As is the case with live shows, production levels are great and with lots of interaction between players and hosts, a fun time is always had at these events.

Fafabet has done a great job when it comes to its live casino offering, with the many games I tried loading quickly and with little to no issues from an audio or visual perspective. The live casino at Fafabet is highly recommended.

Table Games

In my many reviews of casino sites, it has been clear that table games have become less popular to the point where some casinos are almost phasing them out, as slots and live casino games have started to dominate instead. However, the Fafabet team wants to reverse this trend as they continue to play host to some 200 games onsite.

Variations of blackjack, baccarat, roulette and poker can be found, along with Deal or No Deal, craps and pachinko titles. Despite the number of games available, the range is somewhat limited, with games such as video poker only offering one option.

Fafabet's table game offering is decent enough and it is commendable that they are attempting to reverse the slow removal of these sorts of titles, but it can be argued that they are playing it safe with what they have available to players.

How To Claim The FafaBet Casino Welcome Offer

1. Register for your new FafaBet Account by clicking the "Claim" button above
2. New customers deposit and stake £10 on any FafaBet slot game(s) to receive a matched £10 casino bonus!
3. If you stake £20 and more you will receive a £20 Casino Bonus + £5 Free bet!
4. If you stake £100 and more you will receive a £100 Casino Bonus + £20 Free bet!

Fafabet provides the following deposit methods for players, with the minimum deposit amount set at £10. 

Maestro, VISA, Mastercard, Apple Pay, Neteller and Skrill.

The above list of payment options is also available for the processing of withdrawals, with a minimum £10 amount required. Players using Apple Pay will of course see funds returned to the bank account associated with the service.

How Long Do Withdrawals Take At Fafabet?

According to Fafabet's information, all withdrawal methods should take no longer than 24 hours to process. In my experience using regular bank/debit cards, this process was generally quicker than stated, but times did vary.

Please remember that this is based on a verified account, using a debit card, other methods may see a delay in processing. Although Fafabet will process the payment quickly, It could take between 1-3 days for it to appear in your bank account, so check your banking practices for further imformation.

Fafabet offers a strong customer service option for players of either sportsbook or casino, providing a very handy FAQ for simple queries, along with a 24/7 webchat.

The FAQ section functions well, with the majority of straightforward questions answered, which helps newer players get to grips with Fafabet's various functions. 

I used the webchat on several occasions and was greeted by courteous and friendly staff members, who provided plenty of information to queries I posed. All was handled professionally and within a minute or two at worst.

Finally, Fafabet offers e-mail contact, for users seeking further information and once again, responses were well within expectations, while courteous and helpful.

support@fafabet.co.uk