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Grand Reef Casino is blacklisted due to the massive amount of unresolved complaints from players reporting unjustified confiscation of winnings, extremely delayed or completely denied payments, various stalling tactics and total denial of cooperation and players support.

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Grand Reef Casino

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Player Rating 22 reviews
2.6/10
22 reviews
Complaint Response 125 complaints
4 days avg. 125 complaints
What we like
  • Wide selection of Playtech games
  • 24/7 support available through live chat, phone, or e-mail
  • Strict security standards
  • Proven fair through TST
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Website
http://www.grandreefcasino.com
Established
2010
Licences
Curacao Gaming Control Board
Affiliate Program
Languages
English
Casino Type
Download, Instant Play, Mobile

Grand Reef Casino hails itself as "Australia and New Zealand's #1 Online Casino". With a sunny and aquatic theme, this should come as no surprise. This is a Playtech casino, meaning that they have one of the largest selections of games you can find. Grand Reef Casino has a license in the jurisdiction of Curacao.

Security and Fairness

Players want to know that they're safe when playing online. To alleviate any fears, Grand Reef Casino has a detailed security system installed on their networks. Any information sent to Grand Reef Casino is encrypted with the latest technology. Furthermore, all data stored on their servers is protected with an ironclad firewall. With precautions like these, Grand Reef Casino is perfectly safe.

Grand Reef Casino is also one of the most trustworthy casinos in terms of game fairness. Even though they use the largest casino software provider in the world, Grand Reef Casino still has TST audit the games for fairness. This monthly report is even available for the general public to see.

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Grand Reef Casino - $967.67 Outstanding Since Nov 2017
I don't even know where to begin or the frustration. My understanding is GRC has been taken over by new management and I was first contacted by them towards the end of last year welcoming Australia/NZ players.

I have been in contact with Schalk VIP Manager ever since and he has been very responsive which is typical for them to behave this way to get new business.

I was assured by him there will be change or reform and they will be nothing like the old GRC as he was aware of the past problems.

I was hesitant to play as I have been a long time member of GRC before new management took over - despite the problems I had with the old GRC they still manage to pay me out despite the long delays.

Anyway it is now Feb 2019, almost March 2019 and yet they have failed to pay me since Nov 2017.

Schalk tried a number of different options below as from what he told me it seems an issue between South Africa > Australia sending payments or restrictions with the bank from his end.

- 1st Attempt, BPAY Payment Nov 2019 = failed, BPAY advised they cannot send money to players only receive them which is highly odd because they have that in the withdrawal method section. Why they have it as a withdrawal method if it does not work is really beyond me.

- 2nd Attempt, Neteller Dec 2019 = failed, was assured by Schalk neteller is the best option for faster payment and he guaranteed me I will get the funds however when he attempted Neteller gave a restriction error message which prevented me getting the funds.

- 3rd Attempt, Bitcon Jan 2019 = failed, at this point I already knew this was similar to the old habits of GRC using stalling tactics again and Bullshitting, Schalk told me to get ready and set up a bitcoin account in Australia and wait for setup on his end. I setup an account and waited 2 weeks and his excuse was he needed to get this right because if incorrectly send we both will lose the money and will not be able to recover it.

I never heard anything back from him again even though I asked the question to him numerous times just simply avoided the question and would say something that was off topic and not related - I already assumed at this point bitcoin was a dead end.

Again they have it as a withdrawal method even though it does not work or has not been setup for Australian players.

- 4th Attempt, Wire Transfer Feb 2019 = In progress, this has been in progress since Jan 2019 and finally finalised the bank wire setup on their end according to their finance team in early Feb 2019. I have submitted the wire transfer withdrawal and now I get a message in progress in pending which shows signs of good news however since the start of Feb 2019 until now which is 3 weeks and going into March 2019 they have made every excuse in the book i.e. technical issues, payments on hold, waiting feedback on back and its the same response week in and week out with no resolved outcome.

I have been in contact with all the staff members via online chat because their toll free number which they claim can be used in Australia does not work and I have raised this with them and nothing was done to fix the ph - so live chat was the only option to communicate with them.

The support staff Samir, Dom, Reagon, Stan and Marina all say the same thing every week with a very bland and vague response with no clear answers. They all said "working on it" and "you will be paid" however the specific question I asked them regarding ETA and timeframes they are unable to reply with a clear response and just say waiting feedback and will get back to you. I do not see how complicated my question was and cannot understand the logic why they cannot answer a simple question. It seems the response they give is very scripted and it is like talking to a robot.

As you can see from above every attempt was a major blockage and there is always something going wrong, I am annoyed that I put a lot of work into setting up Neteller/Bitcoin accounts and they dont work which was a huge waste of my time.

Now from what I can tell it seems South Africa is having some issues sending money to Australia, however from what I was been told by Schalk last year the Ban has been lifted and we can now play but it seems like this is not the case.

They should not be advertising Welcome Back Australian players if none of their payment methods work or have not been fully set up - it seems like a scam/con and I really do not hope this is the case.

From now since Jan 2019 Schalk was not responsive anymore and I do not know the reason behind this but I find this highly strange that he was very responsive at first seeking my business but after multiple failed attempts and the number of issues they are having with payments he just does not respond.

To be honest my payment which is under 1k should not be this complicated or rocket science, I cannot imagine the problems if I had won more money. Old GRC payed amounts under 1k no problems, their only issue was with amounts nearing the 5k range.

Can we get a GRC liaison to communicate this with GRC and find out what is going on as this is affecting a lot of other Australian/NZ players and I know I am not the only one experiencing this.

I appreciate someone in AskGamblers or someone who has authority to chase this up - I was promised last week or this week.
Last week has passed and hoping this week I will get a resolution.

So far it has been the same excuse week in and week out and I really do not know what is going on over there or if they are just screwing me around.

Support team in GRC is also useless and say the same thing and really add no value to their response.​

I urge Australian/NZ players to consider this complaint I made if they ever decide to join to save them the stress or hassle - I wanted to give them another chance but it seems the new GRC management has made things worst hence the 1 star rating.

For other Australian/NZ players that are experiencing the same issue all I can say is hang in there and hope you get your money soon.
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Avg. Complaint Duration 22 days
Avg. Response Time 4 days

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AVOID this casino at all cost they don't payout in the time frame that is stated on there web site, there live chat spin you yarns basically calling you a liar, DON'T play here would be my advice unless you like being called a liar and stuffed around for who knows how long to get paid winnings, from a member for over 4-5 years depositing from the same bank account.

If it's a Playtech casino, I'll sign up! Well, that was almost exactly 2 years ago! There isn't any Playtech casino that I haven't tried to register with. If I'm not restricted, I'm already in, or was in. If restricted, no way in, so I had to stay out. As far as I can remember, over these 2 years, Grand Reef Casino hasn't changed much but got better! More games, better bonuses, better offers, and there's always something on offer on a daily basis. Try and find another Playtech casino that does the same thing, you won't find any! The closest, without naming the casino, has nothing to offer on every Wednesdays, for one reason or another. Grand Reef has something for everyone, every day of the week, every week of the year! Nothing can beat that!

Live support may not be available all the time (the hosts do need to go to the loo, or have a quick meal, whatever, but they'll soon be back online) and I cannot really remember if I ever had any problems with their Live Chat. Maybe because I hardly ever need them because all bonuses are automatically credited in when you make your deposit, without the troublesome need for keying in the Bonus Code for the day, as for most other casinos. I need them only when I am faced with some technical problems or issues that would require their intervention and assistance. On all other occasions, about 99.9% I would say, I don't even use their services! But they have always been there when I needed them!

Around the end of 2015, they had some recurring technical problems with their systems, but have now seemed to be corrected and are running smoothly. No more problems for me so far, except for my own bloody personal problems...but that's a different story altogether, haha.

Bonuses offered by Grand Reef Casino are the best available anywhere! 100% and 150% deposit bonuses, for example, can be taken with just 1 deposit, or with as many deposits as you want, until the maximum allowed limit has been reached! Marvelous! I am one of those players who would take them up repeatedly. 5 times or more in a day, until the limit has been reached at times. The next day, I'll go again! Simple irresistible. Until I am unable no more funds available to deposit! Comprehensive?!

One more thing. All bonuses have only a 30x bonus amount wagering requirement! Bonus amount, not deposit+bonus amount as for most other casino offers, and this makes a big difference in the total wagering you need to complete! For example, $100 bonus x 30 =$3000; $100 deposit+$100 bonus x 30 = $6000. See the big difference?!

Well, if I keep on talking about the things that I like about Grand Reef Casino, this review may go on and on and you might even fall asleep reading it! So lets just cut it out and make it short, hehe. There is only one thing, just one thing, that fails to meet my high expectations of the casino. What? No beautiful live girls? Gees. I don't play roulette so I wouldn't know about that. No, not even blackjack, white jack, yellow jack or baccarat. So go find out for yourself! Haha.

Slow withdrawal processing and completion times. This is what that doesn't live up to my expectations so far! But lately, this has improved by leaps. Don't know about the bounce and the fastest time I had received my money was in 2 days flat! Usually it would take 5 days, big amounts up to 15 days. Before this you don't wanna know! Haha.

If all small withdrawals can be paid in just 1 or 2 days, I would give Grand Reef Casino 10 beautiful green stars!!!

The Variety of Games are great. Very good gaphics on games.

Very slow chat response. Very rude chat representatives.
False information given by live chat employee's.
Slow Withdrawals.

Grand Reef is a Playtech powered casino I joined earlier this month. It's been a little while since I last joined some casino with this software, which used to be my favorite. On AskGamblers it's stated that Grand Reef casino doesn't accept players from my country, that's why I didn't register there earlier, but I found some no deposit bonus offer and decided to give it a try.

I went through the registration very quickly and received both welcome email and text message. Then I went to live chat and I didn't have to wait for a connection at all. I asked if players from my country could play there and whether I could receive a no deposit offer. I was told that players from my country are welcomed to play there and receive welcome deposit bonuses, but that I wasn't eligible for any sign up no deposit bonus. In welcome email I was told that my country couldn't use credit cards as deposit methods, but could use Neteller and Skrill. Live support offered me a 150% bonus and 10 free spins, if I would make the deposit that day, but I decided to not take any bonus, since lately I have no luck with meeting wagering.

I made a 30€ deposit and went to play Halloween Fortune slot, which is another festive slot, but since I like the Halloween theme, I decided to go for it. I played with minimum bets for around 300 spins. I was surprised to see regular winnings, many times around 5x bet so overall my balance didn't go down even for a bit. Then I managed to trigger bonus round and had 20 free spins with 4x multiplier, but most of the spins were empty and I ended with 20x bet winnings.

After that I changed the game to my dear Iron Man 2, 50 line version. I played with minimum bets again. I had no luck at all, I had only one win of 10x bet, all other spins paid peanuts and I lost more than 20€ quickly. With the rest of my balance, I went to play Blade 20 line version, since my balance was low. I managed to trigger free spin round within 50 spins and few good hits gave me 80x bet winnings from free rounds, which was a decent success. Few spins later I triggered another free spins, but this time with 50x bet winnings. After this I felt confident enough to raise bets to 1€ per spin, to chase a big win. Of course it didn't work out as I planned and I lost all of my balance soon.

Overall I had a good time at Grand Reef casino and I think I will play there again. They have very good customer service, great game selection and nice bonuses as well. Can't complain about anything at the moment.

I have played at this casino for the past four years and must say up until recently all complaints have been justified; I have even used this service to try and fast track a withdrawal. Over the past 12 months however, their service has improved out of sight and payments are now being processed within the stated time frames. I am not sure whether you get a better status over time that may influence this but Grand Reef has gone from a nightmare to an enjoyable casino to visit and deal with.

Hi Mattjoose, Thank you very much for the acknowledgment as it is greatly appreciated from Grand Reef Casino.

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The graphic of the games are great. Good variety and they have one of the best keno games.

They will give you a new excuse every time you contact them to not pay your winnings. They keep asking for more personal information. Very worried about their approach and the security of my information with them.

I was searching for some free spins as a sign up offer and then I came across Grand Reef Casino on AskGamblers site and I was wondering how I didn’t sign up here so far, just because I knew about this casino long time ago and didn’t open an account. I saw this very generous offer of 50 free spins on three different slots, Spider man, Gladiator and The Piggies and the Wolf, so having 50 free spins without making any deposit, so I can try this casino why not. At start I really didn’t like, when I saw how many complaints they had, wow three all pages full with complaints and not so young casino, but still on line I just had to try this casino. I opened the banner from AskGamblers site and on it was stated for every new player, just needs to download the casino open account and the free spins will be there, well to choose from 3 of them, which they were offered.

The sign up process was really quick but when I opened the Piggies and the Wolf slot there were no free spins for me. I decided to talk to chat support hopefully they will resolve this issue, with the free spins. The chat support was there, so right away they answer to me. I was really shocked their answer saying even if I sign up from that banner I was not having free spins on my account. I tried to explain and told him that my country is not on the list of restricted countries, even gave him the banner ,which I sign up but I got the same answer, you don’t have free spins on your account, but you got 500 in bonuses. Well I don’t blame all the players who submitted all this complaints against them, because if they don’t honor, what they are advertising on AskGamblers site I don’t attend to play here neither deposit here ever. Very irresponsible casino, no wonder they have bad reputation and so many complaints!

They say its Australia's and New Zealand's no.1 casino and i doubt that because i stay in aus for 6 months a year and i gamble mostly there only because there are no gambling taxes there and this casino is one of the most famous casinos but definitely not the best one out there. They are taking games from the play tech (PT) which is like one of the best and the biggest in providing games to the casinos. I see very less PT casinos with free money bonuses or may be they do not need such bonuses to promote them because they know how good they are. I deposited 50 here and they have SUB's till 5 deposits and i hate SUB's so as always i just decided to play with my deposited money only.

And i made 2 cash outs from this casino and only played table and card games 90$ of the times because i love table and card games from the PT. I started with the casino hold em and here i was betting the minimal in the beginning but after crushing the dealer for a lot of hands i was a little excited and then started betting a little high. I played hold em, Bj and premium roulette most of the times here. My 1st cash out was 130 and 2nd was 156 and it got to me in a single day and this is the best thing about PT casinos that cash outs are very fast.

I lost the money in the third time and was not affected by it because i had done my bit and earned good money by then. I really like all the PT games but could not really try the slots here and would come back here for them soon. I would give this casino an 8.

Grand reef casino is from the playtech portal and i think PT has the best slot games ever. And i love this portal the most and whenever it comes to making a real money deposit most of the times i just go for the casino from the playtech gaming community. The only thing which i did not like is that they did not have a instant play mode on this casino. And the best thing is that the playtech casinos have a very sting return to players. I sent 30 through my neteller and ignored the signup bonus which i do mos tof the times because their is a very small chance of meeting the wager.

I started with the gladiator game and this is my favourite slot game from the playtech. And got the white lady thing in the beginning and this game gave me a lot of action. I left this game with a profit of 9$ and i was betting very low since i did not have a big bank roll behind me. I played the thor slot and this is the first time i was playing this game and i really enjoyed the visuals and the sounds. The best one was when i got the j and k with the loki thing and this one got me around 1.50$.

Went to roulette after playing a couple of slots and i was now at 60 something bank roll. In roulette most of the time i put my money on black but this time i bet on odd and evens. I withdrew the money as soon as my balance was around 80 because i do not play on a single casino for a long time because that makes me greedy and then i start betting big and lose all the money. This casino is very nice and also has some free spins offers. I would give this casino 9 out of 10.

Games are ok

This casino will do anything in its power to delay paying you out. They make excuse after excuse and trip themselves up in their lies. Promises made not kept. Pit Boss does not contact when asked. Definitely would not recommend.

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