About Us

We are a small, independent team of UK-based gambling researchers and consumer writers with a focused interest in Curaçao-licensed casino operators. We built this website after repeatedly encountering the same frustration: players looking for honest information about Curaçao casinos in the UK were being served content that was essentially advertising dressed up as editorial. Rankings stuffed with paid placements. Reviews that glossed over withdrawal problems. Licensing explanations written to reassure rather than inform. We are here to do something different. We have no financial relationship with any operator we cover, we earn nothing when you click through to a casino, and we have no incentive to tell you anything other than what we actually found.

1. Our Mission

Our mission is to give UK players a genuinely reliable guide to Curaçao-licensed casinos — one that covers the benefits honestly, explains the risks clearly, and helps players make informed decisions rather than just pushing them toward a sign-up button. Curaçao is one of the most common licensing jurisdictions for casinos accessible to UK players, particularly those outside the GamStop network, yet it is also one of the least well understood. The licensing framework is frequently misrepresented, the player protections it offers are often overstated, and the variation in quality between operators holding Curaçao licences is enormous. Our job is to cut through that confusion — documenting what the licence actually means, which operators operate responsibly within that framework, and where the genuine risks lie for UK players considering a Curaçao-licensed platform.

2. Our Independence Policy

We operate under a firm no-affiliation, no-commission policy. We do not participate in casino schemes, we do not earn revenue shares or CPA payments, and we do not accept any form of payment — direct or indirect — from the operators we review. No sponsored rankings, no paid inclusions, no complimentary accounts offered in exchange for favourable coverage. Every casino covered on this site was selected and assessed through our own independent research process, based on documented evidence of how the operator performs in practice. This independence is especially important in the Curaçao casino space, where the financial incentives for publishers are significant and the quality of independent editorial is correspondingly poor. We made a conscious decision to step outside that system entirely. It means we earn less. It also means you can trust what you read.

3. How We Research and Test Curaçao Casinos

Our research begins with licensing verification. Curaçao's licensing structure has undergone significant change in recent years, and we take nothing at face value — we verify active licence status directly, check the issuing entity, and note any sub-licensing arrangements that may affect player protections. From there, we move to operator ownership research: identifying parent companies, mapping sister site networks, and flagging where multiple brands share infrastructure, terms, or support systems that players should be aware of. Practical testing follows: we register real accounts, make real deposits, trigger bonuses, and submit real withdrawal requests to document actual processing times rather than the estimates published in FAQs. We test customer support at multiple points during the process, read bonus terms in full before assessing their real value, and document any discrepancies between what an operator advertises and what we experience firsthand. Nothing in our reviews is based on operator-supplied information alone.

4. A Note on Responsible Gambling

A significant proportion of UK players who seek out Curaçao-licensed casinos do so because they are registered with GamStop and are looking for platforms outside that self-exclusion network. We cover this reality factually and without judgement, but we also cover it responsibly. Curaçao-licensed operators are not required to participate in GamStop or to offer the same responsible gambling infrastructure mandated by the UKGC. Some operators go beyond their minimum obligations voluntarily — others do not. We document both. Throughout our content, we flag clearly where deposit limits, self-exclusion tools, and session tracking features are available, and where they are absent. If you are experiencing problems with gambling, please reach out for support. The National Gambling Helpline is available on 0808 8020 133, and BeGambleAware.org offers confidential guidance and resources. This website is intended for adults aged 18 and over only.

5. Meet the Team

We are three people. Here is a bit about each of us.

Richard Calloway

Lead Researcher & Editor

Richard spent twelve years working in investigative consumer journalism, covering financial services, insurance, and retail banking before shifting his focus to the online gambling sector. He came to the Curaçao casino space after becoming increasingly frustrated with the quality of information available to UK players navigating offshore operators — a gap he felt was both significant and almost entirely unaddressed by serious editorial. At our site, Richard leads all licensing research, writes our regulatory explainers, and sets the editorial standards that govern every piece of content we publish. He is based in Leeds and holds a degree in Law from the University of Sheffield. His approach to casino reviews is informed by his legal background: he reads every clause, questions every assumption, and does not consider a review complete until he understands exactly what the terms mean for the player in a dispute scenario.

Natalie Forsythe

Casino Analyst & Withdrawal Specialist

Natalie brings a background in financial compliance and customer experience research to our team, having spent several years working as an analyst for a UK-based payment processing firm. She is responsible for the hands-on operational testing that underpins every review we publish — registering accounts, making deposits, activating bonuses, and running withdrawal requests through their full cycle to document real processing times and any friction points along the way. Natalie is methodical in her approach, logging every support interaction verbatim and maintaining timestamped records of each stage of the withdrawal process so that our reviews reflect documented experience rather than impressions. She is based in Cardiff and has a particular interest in how Curaçao-licensed operators handle payment disputes — an area where the absence of UKGC oversight creates meaningful risk for players that she believes deserves far more attention than it typically receives.

Oliver Mensah

Data Analyst & Operator Network Researcher

Oliver is a data professional with a background in competitive intelligence and corporate structure analysis, and a longstanding personal interest in how online gambling operators organise themselves commercially. At our site, he is responsible for the research layer that most review sites skip entirely: mapping casino ownership groups, identifying shared infrastructure across sister sites, tracking changes to bonus terms and withdrawal limits over time, and building the operator network profiles that inform our broader assessments. Oliver built the internal monitoring tools we use to detect when platform conditions change between review cycles, which allows us to keep our content current rather than letting it go stale after publication. He is based in Birmingham and approaches every operator with a simple starting question: what is this business actually optimised for, and is that aligned with the interests of its players? In his experience, the answer is usually visible in the data long before it shows up in the reviews.

6. Contact Us

We are always interested in hearing from players with direct experience of the operators we cover. If you have encountered a withdrawal problem, a bonus dispute, or any other issue with a Curaçao-licensed casino that you think deserves scrutiny, please get in touch — detailed first-hand accounts are some of the most valuable research material we have access to, and we take every submission seriously. If you believe we have made a factual error in any of our content, we want to know and will investigate promptly. You can contact us through the form on this site. We do not accept partnership enquiries, operator outreach, or requests for paid coverage of any kind. Please do not send them.