Roadhouse Reels Casino Review

Roadhouse Reels is a great name for a casino, especially one styled on a 1950s roadside diner, complete with a jukebox playing Buddy Holly, endless filter coffee refills and a pink Cadillac out front.

You can almost smell the fries and hear the burgers sizzle as you hit the homepage of Roadhouse Reels and prepare to start spinning your way through its slots and twisting your way through its blackjack and other card-based games. Roadhouse Reels appears to have a distinctive identity of its own...or at least it does until you inspect the other online casinos available from the Grand Prive group, of which RR is a member.

The site is a clone of other sites developed by the group including Lake Palace, which it mirrors right down to the last pixel. The only element of Roadhouse Reels that differs from Lake Palace is the header image. The rest – menus, bonuses, progressive jackpot values – is the same.

That Roadhouse Reels should prove to be a copy of a copy doesn’t automatically take away from its value as a casino. It’s worth bearing in mind however, as reskinned sites are more likely to be rush jobs whose operators have little interest in building up strong customer relationships or providing fresh promotions.

About Roadhouse Reels

The group of which Roadhouse Reels is a part was founded in 2001. Back then, the only way to play at a web-based casino was to download software to your PC. Today, there are a multitude of ways to play, but it is the download model that Roadhouse Reels, like its sister sites, has favoured.

Thankfully, Mac users are catered for as well as PC users, and the installation process proves to be painless. Mobile and tablet players can also get in on the action however; a number of Roadhouse Reels’ games are also compatible with touchscreen devices and designed to work in-browser.

Roadhouse Reels professes to be all about “the era of Elvis, the muscle car and the boomer generation”. Boomers might be derided today, for everything from their voting habits to their pensions and property portfolio, but there was once a time when they were the future of America. That time was the 1950s and it’s an era which has been enjoying a renaissance of late as people find themselves pining for a simpler time, when everyone knew their place in society, and there was pleasure to be derived from hanging at the diner, driving the open highway or playing some slots.

Getting Started at Roadhouse Reels

If you’re a Mac or PC user, getting started is simply a case of downloading the site’s software and installing it on your desktop device. Roadhouse Reels also apparently has CDs doing the rounds however, which will elicit a wry smile from anyone who recalls the early AOL days of the internet, when free CDs were given out like Halloween candy to entice households to get online.

If you’re playing or planning to play at Roadhouse Reels in the current year, however, it’s safe to assume you won’t be accessing the casino with the aid of a compact disc, not least because many laptops don’t even have disc drives any more.

Banking Options

Roadhouse Reels promises its customers secure banking options, with industry standard 128-bit encryption keeping everything locked down. Credit and debit card deposits can be made via Visa and MasterCard. Popular e-wallets Neteller and Skrill are also available along with UPayCard and Eco.

Withdrawals can be made via credit or debit card, Neteller and Skrill. Roadhouse Reels offers fast withdrawals, with payments processed within 24 hours in some cases. Unfortunately, the perks end there: like its sister sites, Roadhouse Reels has a minimum withdrawal policy of $100 and levies withdrawal charges of anywhere from $0-$30.

Roadhouse Support

Should you require assistance while accessing Roadhouse Reels, help is at hand. The site provides live chat as well as a toll-free US number. Other freephone numbers are also provided for the countries or territories where the casino is licensed to operate. Email support is also available.

Bonus Time

The bonuses to be enjoyed at Roadhouse Reels are, naturally, the same as those offered by the other Grand Prive group of casinos. Whether this policy is done out of laziness, convenience or so that support staff can recall the offers in question when customers phone them is unclear. Whatever the case, you can claim up to $800 when you download the casino’s software, sign up and make your first deposit.

On its homepage, Roadhouse Reels actually claims to offer a welcome bonus of $1,000, but on the promotions page of the site, it appears to be just $800. This works out as a 110% first deposit match of up to $200, a 50% second deposit match of up to $400 and a 100% third deposit match of up to $200.

On a weekly basis, Roadhouse Reels offers the same promotions as its peers, starting with Double Your Money Mondays. Deposit $25 on this day of the week and the casino will give you $50 to play with. There are also 25 bonus spins to be claimed for playing Roadhouse Reels’ latest slot, Max Cash – just enter the apposite bonus code – and up to $50 awarded to players randomly on Fridays.

As an example of how vague and cobbled together many casinos’ bonus schemes appear to be, Roadhouse Reels professes to offer 3 different values of welcome bonus, depending on which part of the site you visit. On the homepage, it’s stated as $1,000 in one instance, $100 in another and $800 on the promotions page.

Good Games Selection

The games to be played at Roadhouse Reels – or at any Grand Prive casino for that matter – include a good selection of video slots and classic slots. The site claims to provide an RTP of 97% across all its games and to regularly add new titles to its site, from video poker to blackjack.

There are also progressive jackpot games to browse, whose collective value is prominently displayed at the top of the homepage.

Roadhouse Reels has some less common slots that you may not have encountered in your travels. These include the indulgent Le Chocolatier, Dollars Down Under and the comical Yeti Hunt. If classic slots are more your thing, there are simple thrills to be derived from playing the likes of Wild Berry, Dream Wheel and iSevens.

Roadhouse Reels Summed Up

Roadhouse Reels is a reasonable casino in its own right; a derivative one when ranked alongside its owners’ stable of other identikit casinos. The 1950s theme is a nice touch and there are some decent games to be played here. With the number of games that can be played in-browser limited, players will need to download Roadhouse Reels’ software to get the full casino experience.

With less than agreeable withdrawal options and contradictory bonus amounts stated on the site, Roadhouse Reels could use some serious TLC from its proprietors.