Ladbrokes Review: Assessing This High Street Brand in the Digital Age

The new customer bonus at Ladbrokes is easy to access and offers good value. When you create an account and bet £5, you will receive £20 in free bets. The free bets will be issued as 4x £5 bets that you can use on any sport.

You need to bet on a market with odds totalling 1/2 or greater to qualify for this offer, and when available, the free bets will be in your account for a total of seven days. You can claim the welcome bonus on mobile or desktop, as is the case with many bonuses at betting sites. We fully recommend that you check our Ladbrokes bonus review to get the full scoop on the terms and conditions of this offer.

Before working on this Ladbrokes review, we created an account at the sportsbook to test it out for ourselves. We found the process to be exceptionally straightforward, and you can get started by following these four simple steps:

1. Visit the Ladbrokes homepage. Head to the Ladbrokes homepage and click the “Join” button in the top right of the screen.
2. Create an account. When prompted, select your country of residence, add your email address, and create a unique user ID and password.
3. Make a deposit. Complete the sign-up process and head to the payment page to add funds to your Ladbrokes account.
4. Place a bet. Choose which sport to bet on and place a qualifying bet of £5 to trigger the welcome bonus that will add 4x £5 free bets to your account.

While writing our Ladbrokes reviews for key areas, we were impressed by the number of features available at the site. You can access these features in the UK, but Ladbrokes is also available in dozens of global markets, including the Isle of Man, Gibraltar, Jersey, Republic of Ireland, Argentina, Barbados, Ghana, Malta, Netherlands, Nigeria, and Tanzania, among others. Here are some of the features you can use at Ladbrokes all around:

A key aspect of our Ladbrokes review is how the site performs on mobile devices. If you don’t want to take up precious memory on your smartphone or tablet, you can access Ladbrokes directly from a mobile browser. Simply head to the homepage and sign in each time you wish to place a bet. You can easily live stream sports this way, and you can even place in-play bets directly from your mobile browser.

If you prefer betting on a native app, you can download the Ladbrokes app for iOS or Android. On Google Play, Labdrokes has a rating of 4.1 from more than 18,000 reviews, which is a pretty decent score. On the other hand, the app scores 3.1 from 3,000+ reviews on iOS, so you might want to stick to the mobile site if you’re an iPhone user. Despite this, in our experience, we found the app to be intuitive and easy to navigate. It was particularly easy to search for specific sports, while the quality of the live streams was impressive. Ultimately, if you bet on the go, Ladbrokes is a good sportsbook to consider.

Ladbrokes mobile sports betting

Best horse racing odds guaranteed at Ladbrokes

While writing our Ladbrokes review, we found 10+ supported payment methods available. As a UK-licenced platform, you cannot deposit on Ladbrokes with a credit card, but debit card methods are supported.

PayPal, Skrill, Neteller and Trustly payments are supported, while you can also process a bank transfer if you prefer. If you’re betting on your phone or tablet, you can add funds to Ladbrokes via Google and Apple Pay. The table below provides an overview of the supported payment methods at Ladbrokes in 2023:

One of the easiest ways to transact at Ladbrokes is via Apple and Google Pay, which both have limits of £5,000 for daily withdrawals. You can also withdraw money via Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Neteller, and Skrill.

If you land a big win at Ladbrokes, the best option is a bank transfer, with withdrawals capped at £500,000. Just be mindful that withdrawals via bank transfer tend to take much longer than other payment methods, so you may need to wait up to ten days to access your winnings.

As we worked our way through our Ladbrokes review, we contacted the customer support team on several occasions. To get help, you need to navigate to the “Help & Contact” centre. Here, Ladbrokes lists a host of helpful articles that might be able to help you, including deposit and withdrawal information and live betting FAQs, among others.

While there is no live chat, the easiest way to get real-time support for an issue is via X (formerly Twitter), and you can reach out directly to @LadbrokesCare. If you wish to speak to a customer service agent directly, you can call Ladbrokes support on any of the following numbers:

• UK: 0800 731 6191
• Outside the UK: +44 208 429 7971
• Singapore: +800 8000 2828/4848

Ladbrokes is regulated by the UK Gambling Commission under account number 54743. The UKGC is the strictest regulatory body in the world, with guidelines and protocols that ensure that licenced sites protect bettors from problem gambling. As a result, you can access a raft of responsible gambling tools at Ladbrokes, including time and deposit limits that you can adjust according to how much you wish to spend.

To use the suite of responsible gambling tools, navigate to the “safer gambling” tab at the top of the screen and work your way through the tools available. You can also read some helpful tips to help you stay in control and access further sources of help recommended by Ladbrokes. Furthermore, Ladbrokes employs site-wide SSL encryption to protect your personal and financial information.

When working on our Ladbrokes sports review, there wasn’t any loyalty program available to sports bettors, but you can access other promos to boost your bankroll as you bet. We were really impressed with the quality of ongoing promotions available, which are specifically brilliant for horse racing fans. Take a quick look at some of the following ongoing promos currently available:

• Extra Place Races: Every week, Ladbrokes selects specific races in the UK & Ireland to offer additional places (typically up to fourth) for each-way bets. An important term to highlight here is that qualifying bets can only be placed after 3pm the day before the event.
• Best Odds Guaranteed: For all UK & Irish horse races, Ladbrokes offers to pay out the best price if the odds change in the lead-up to the race, should your horse place or win. Like the Extra Place Races, there are time constraints, and this will only apply to bets on same day events, placed after 8am.
• 100k Guaranteed Placepot: You can also enjoy tote betting at Ladbrokes, which sees you join a betting pool to win a share of £50,000 during the week and £150,000 at the weekend.
• The Ladbrokes 5-A-Side: This promo is also popular, which is a unique way to bet on football for your chance to win a share of prizes. It involves picking your formation, player and stats and building a team. Ladbrokes offers a short helpful guide to walk you through the key steps.

Ladbrokes customers can also access a raft of odds boosts and other good value promotions throughout the season, so be sure to regularly check their promotions page.

As one of the world’s most recognisable sports betting brands, Ladbrokes’ use of red and white is easy on the eye. When writing our Ladbrokes review, we were also impressed with how easy the site is to use. You can find all of the available sports and markets listed on the left-hand side of the screen in an A-Z format, while a horizontal bar runs across the top of the screen with lots of popular markets.

Your active bet slip is to the right of the screen and is automatically populated when you make selections, which makes it really easy to monitor your current bets. One thing that would improve the site is a search bar, but it’s not enough to negatively affect our Ladbrokes rating too severely.