Spinstralia

Spinstralia promises to be a safe place where you can play your favorite pokies. Pokies are what slots are called in Australia, and it becomes very clear that the house aims to get the attention of players precisely from that country.

If you are one of them, you might want to read the following review before making an account with the casino, though. There are certain aspects about it you need to be aware of, and certain downsides which would probably make your time playing with Spinstralia much less fun than if you chose to stick to another place t play pokies.

For example, the house does not actually hold any license. This means it lacks what it takes to offer you the reliable protections you might expect from a casino with a stricter regulatory background, which you might have come to expect. Only one payment method is available as well, and that is very lackluster, in our opinion. In general, casinos are able to offer players a plethora of payment options, making it a lot more convenient to pick what you want to use to deposit or withdraw with.

What's more, the list of games available to play at Spinstralia is pitiful. There are barely over 20 Game suppliers featured on the casino's website, meaning what it  has to offer in terms of a games library is exceptionally shallow.

So, let's take a look at all of these issues in more detail, and uncover whether one should play at Spinstralia or not:

Bonuses

There are four Welcome Bonuses which Spinstralia awards you over the course of your initial deposits. Besides them, the house also provides a recurring bonus, available on every deposit, as well as a couple of Seasonal bonuses. Here is an outline of what all of these promotions look like:

What's interesting about the casino is that its Welcome bonuses outnumber the rest of the promotions it has to offer. This is not something we see often. Usually, it is the various recurring bonuses which are given more importance than the one-time available Welcome packages of casinos. If anything, there has been a bit too much attention put on these initial deposit bonuses by Spinstralia, and there are really no interesting recurring promotions!

Still, let's take a look at both types of offerings , starting with the Spinstralia Welcome Package. The bonuses within that have certain aspects in common between each other. For example, all of them have the same minimum deposit requirement of 25 AUD. How does that stack up to what other casinos demand of players? Pretty well, actually. Other houses tend to offer bonuses provided you cash in between 20 AUD and 30 AUD.

The other major similarity between the four bonuses you can initially get is the wagering requirement of 40x they share. Such requirements are pretty much an inseparable part of the bonus policies of any casino, and represent the number of times you need to play through a bonus before you are allowed to withdraw it. Usually, such requirements are set to between 30x and 40x. So, even though on its high end, we can safely say that Spinstralia is within the reasonable range.

Finally, the Welcome package bonuses do not have any kind of cash out limit to them, which we think is great! The casino does not place any artificial restrictions on how much you can win from the bonuses that way, and how much you get is truly left to chance.

Here is what every one of the four promotions nets you:

• The First Deposit Bonus with Spinstralia is the most generous from the bundle. That is usually the case with most casinos, too. The promotion gives you 175% of whatever you initially cash in, up to 1000 AUD. It is also the only bonus in this package to have a bundle of Free Spins. There are 50 of these Spins, for the game Wolf's Gold.
• After you have played  through the previous promotion, you can also receive the Second Deposit Bonus, which will give you 100% of whatever that deposit is, up to a maximum of 500 AUD. This makes the promotion a bit smaller in scope, but still fairly significant, in our view.
• A Third Deposit Bonus can be claimed next, with a 150% multiplier for the respective cash in. This means you need to come up with less money to reach the maximum of this bonus, also set to 500 AUD, than the previous one.
• Finally, there is a Fourth Deposit Bonus to round out the promotion. It is virtually identical to the Second deposit bonus, with the same maximum bonus and the same amount of your funds counting towards the bonus money you get – 100%.

Now, let's see what Spinstralia has in terms of is only Recurring bonus:

• There is a bonus of 5% of your every deposit, called the Reimbursement Bonus. The intention behind the promotion is for the player to be able to recover any fees they have been charged for depositing via credit cards. As we will explain a bit more in further detail, credit cards are the only way to deposit with Spinstralia, and there can be fees by the card issuers. So, the casino offers you a small 5% bonus in order for you to be able to play with the full value of your money, if such fees are present. However, the bonus is not equal to your own funds, and it can only be cashed out when you have completed its 45x wagering requirement. The requirement is excessive, and over what casinos demand for their deposit promotions in general.

Finally, we would like to mention that it seems that the casino runs extensive Seasonal Bonuses. At the time of writing, this included the Christmas Bonuses, which are actually quite significant. Here is what those are:

• There are special Tournaments in which you can compete with other players, in order to see who can win more on your favorite Slots. The winners are awarded Stars – a special seasonal currency, used to rank them between each other. There is also a prize pool of cash from the tournament, set to 10 000 AUD. Sadly, we have no info about whether that money can be cashed out freely, or whether there are any restrictions to it.
• The top players in the Tournaments can also win two special Christmas offers. One is a 200% deposit bonus with 100 Free Spins. The offer does not specify what the maximum bonus is, nor its wagering requirements are, but you should know that its minimum deposit is priced at 50 AUD which is a bit excessive. The other promotion is actually a No Deposit Bonus – it gives you 250 AUD and 100 FS, without you needing to cash in anything to receive this massive bonus package. Once again, there's no information about what the restrictions on the bonus are.
• Finally, the Advent Calendar allows you to get a special bonus every day between the 1st of December and Christmas. However, to do so, you need to have cashed in 50 AUD or more throughout the month. The house does not actually share what the possible rewards from these bonuses are, which we find to be a bit of a missed opportunity.

We are sad to see that these bonuses will be gone after Christmas, because they are pretty rewarding, and because Spinstralia does not really offer much in terms of promotions besides them.

License

The biggest issue with the casino we take is the lack of license. What's more, whoever is running this house has not even seen it as fit to mention where they are headquartered at all. This means that players will not have access to certain regulatory protections they might otherwise expect. We would like to say that a lack of license does not necessarily mean that there's something wrong with the house, or that it is fraudulent, just that it does not have what it takes to guarantee your safety.

To prove that, we would like to show you what these benefits of playing with a licensed casino are. The majority of houses nowadays opt in to obtain regulation in Curacao, which is the most popular jurisdiction. Stricter regulatory bodies, in the UK and Malta, are also popular destinations. Each of them has a different set of standards for online gambling, but here is what you can generally expect from all of them:

• Whenever you are playing a game of chance with a licensed casino, you can be sure that game is fair, and that it pays out exactly as much as it is supposed to. That is guaranteed by the extensive audits said games are required to undergo, performed by independent professionals who examine the games' random number generators. These generators are just mathematical algorithms, but they dictate the outcomes of each bet you place. By reviewing them, it is possible to know whether there is any bias in the game you can play, and, consequently, that no such bias exists.
• Secondly, there is a lot of information you need to share with casinos, licensed or not. Even Spinstralia asks for your phone number, address and full name when you are trying to cash out. It is reasonable to expect to have to give the house these personal details, because AML regulations are sensible and need to be followed. At the same time, though, this is very sensitive information, which you don't want ending up in the wrong hands. This is why regulators require that licensed casinos keep all of the players' collected info encrypted, and that they use some robust security protocols to do so.
• Finally, there are responsible gambling policies that license casinos need to follow, which include setting custom deposit limits, enabling reality checks or timeouts and even the ability to close down your account. Problem gambling needs to be taken seriously by regulated houses, while their unlicensed peers cannot guarantee that they will protect their players from it to a sufficient degree.

As you can see, there are definitely sufficient reasons to forego this casino and play in a licensed house. However, let's get back to our review. Here is the short list of languages the house can be viewed in:

Languages: English

It makes sense its website is available in English only, because it targets the Australian player. Yet, you can sign up from any country, with the exception of the following jurisdictions:

Restricted countries: Netherlands, United Kingdom, Show All, American Samoa, Aruba, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Curaçao, Iran, Iraq, Korea, North, Myanmar, Sint Maarten (Dutch part), United States, United States Minor Outlying Islands, Virgin Islands, U.S.

So, a couple more languages would have been great to have as an option.

Deposit and Withdrawal

One of the bigger issues with the house is just how restrictive its payments policies are. There is only one means of payment, and the list of currencies you can use to cash in include just the Australian Dollar. Here is an outline of the policies around deposits:

Currencies: Australian Dollar (AUD)

We normally see casinos offer a wide range of payment methods, which makes it easier for their players to deposit with whatever they find to be most convenient to them. A rigid deposits policy prevents that entirely, and we are not fans that Spinstralia only accepts credit cards.

There is a petty low minimum deposit requirement of just 20 AUD, and the casino does deserve some points for it. At the same time, high-rollers will be unhappy to learn the maximum deposit amount is just 500 AUD.

Credit cards can incur fees, charged by the payment provider. It is expected that the player covers this, but Spinstralia does not have any fees on its own. In general, that is how such charges are handled nowadays pretty much anywhere.

Now, let's take a look at the withdrawal conditions:

The same issues as with the deposit policies arise here. There's just one payment method and the maximum withdrawal per day is set to 500 AUD. Adding to the issues is the fact that the casino's processing times are as high as 48 hours for transactions, meaning if you win a significant amount of money, or have deposited a lot, it would take a while before you could cash out all of that. Also, the minimum withdrawal amount is not specified on the page where you can cash out. We expect it to be around 20 AUD as well, because most casinos nowadays have similar cash in and cash out requirements.

Additionally, you need to have played through your funds at least once before you attempt to withdraw, because, otherwise, the casino will charge you a 30% fee. This policy is actually fairly common, and it is adopted to fight money laundering, so we take no issue with it. You will need to cover the charges which might arise from the credit card provider whose services you are using, however – the same as with the deposits to Spinstralia.

There does not seem to be a fee for inactivity in the Terms and Conditions of the casino.

Games and Game Suppliers

Here is a short list of the Game Suppliers we saw listed on the Spinstralia website:

Game providers: Amatic, Apollo Games, Betsoft, Booongo, EGT Interactiv, Hacksaw, IGTech, Merkur, Microgaming, NetEnt, Nolimit City, Novomatic, Play'n GO, Playson, PragmaticPlay, Push Gaming, Quickspin, Relax Gaming, Wazdan, Other

As we said before, these are around 20 Suppliers in total. And, as we also said, this is just not enough nowadays! Most casinos offer the titles of over 50 Suppliers, from their launch, and even expand on that as their services evolve. Still, here is what you can play at this casino:

• Slots: There's a good selection of pokies, with classis like Gates of Olympus, Mustang Gold, Big Bass Bonanza, Wolf's Gold and so on to play. However, the total amount of these games is quite low, at least compared to what most other casinos offer nowadays. What's more, the casino does not offer you a way to sort the available slots by their themes or mechanics, which means finding what you want to play is a lot more difficult than it should be!
• Table Games: Virtual dealer versions of Table game classics like Poker and Roulettes can be played in this casino. At the same time, there are no live games available. While that is not surprising, given how little Game suppliers there are that work with the casino, it is fairly disappointing! We should mention that most houses nowadays are able to offer you access to both Live dealer versions of classic table games and exclusive Game Shows, which are a unique online casino experience you can tune in to.
• Arcade Games: This is a tiny section of the casino's library which contains ten or so Crash games. You can play Plinko, Aviator and so on. These high-pace games are generally quite fun, but we have seen other casinos offer a wider range of them, so Spinstralia does not get any points for just including them.

Conclusion

To sum everything up, this casino does have its moments, and some of its policies are good. For instance, the Christmas bonuses it offers are pretty well-made. However, the lack of license, the lack of games to play and the restrictive deposits and withdrawal policies mean there's not much reason to actually play here. We think you would have a better time if you explored other casinos!