Hot Cruise - Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Introduction

Hello sailor! All aboard for a voyage on this colourful cruise ship, where the sun always shines and the cocktails are always on the menu. If you are familiar with DLV free slots you’ll know they like to combine a straightforward game play style with a fairly high maximum bet size limit, which means all kinds of players can walk these decks with confidence.

Graphics & Soundtrack

It’s impossible not to feel cheerful from the moment Hot Cruise opens to idyllic scenes of tropical glory. The screen has reels sitting in the middle of an image where luscious trees, plants, and flowers frame a sea of perfectly calm, blue ocean. It almost feels like if we wait a while the cruise ship itself will sail into view.

The background may be stunning but it doesn’t overshadow the slot’s symbols, which are equally engaging. Your eyes will be immediately drawn to the handsome ship’s captain, the game’s wild card and the perfect romantic hero in his smart white uniform, but he jostles for your attention with several other attractive images. These include the cruise liner itself a pretty woman in a swimsuit, a selection of delicious looking cocktails, a compass, lifebelt, and a golden ticket.

There’s no background music with this slot, which is a shame, as a catchy Hawaii style tune would have been perfect. It’s some compensation then that the in-play sounds are fun. Along with the standard clicks and whirrs as the reels spin, there's a sweet melody and every win triggers a very loud, ticking clock. This is the signal for players to make a decision - to opt into the gamble bonus feature, or not.

Hot Cruise RTP & Volatility

At 94% the RTP of this fun cruise ship slot is not the highest around, but being medium volatility means players have a hope of having enough successes to hold their interest.

How to Play Hot Cruise

This is an easy slot to set up and play, just follow these simple steps.

1.    Pick the value you want each coin to represent via the yellow denomination button.

2.    Set the number of lines to play by clicking on the LINES icon at the bottom of the screen.

3.    Now choose how many coins you want to stake each spin.

4.    Navigate through the paytable data, bonus information, and payline visuals via the lowercase i symbol.

5.    Check out the autoplay feature. You can go for a set number of spins, ranging from 10 to 500! With such high figures you may wish to look at the CUSTOM options, where various limits can be set to control your spending.

6.    Get familiar with the cog at the top of the screen, which is a shortcut to most of the controls.

Bet Sizes & Paytable Wins

Hot Cruise players can choose to play from 1 to 20 coins (worth 0.01, 0.02, & 0.05). The maximum bet possible per spin is 0.05 x 20 lines.

Paytable Data

All of the main symbols pay quite generously for five matches, dropping quite substantially for four, and further still for landing three of the same in one spin. Here’s more on what you can expect for 5 on a line.

The captain pays 10,000 coins

The cruise liner (scatter) pays 4,000 coins.

The woman in a swimsuit pays 2,000 coins.

The cocktails & the golden ticket both pay 1,000 coins.

The compass & the lifebelt both pay 500 coins.

The A & K both pay 200 coins; the Q & J pay 160, and numbers 9 & 10 pay 100 coins.

Hot Cruise Bonus Features

Free Games Bonus

To enjoy 12 free spins you need to match at least three of the ship (scatter) symbols. Any wins collected during these freebie spins are based on the wager that triggered them, and, of course, they qualify for the gamble feature.

The Gamble

This is an opt-in bonus which is available after every win. To use it simply click on the gamble icon when the clock starts ticking, and take a guess at whether a red or a black playing card will be the next to be turned over. Correct choices double your winnings from that round, and give you the chance to wager winnings on another guess, but get it wrong at any point and you wave goodbye to your coins.

The Wild & Scatter

The gorgeous captain is the wild, ready to substitute all icons except for the cruise ship scatter, which dishes out the free turns.

Our Verdict

It’s refreshing to play an online slot that dares to be different, and Hot Cruise fits that bill, with a dose of quirkiness thrown in for good measure. The reel symbols are a good example of this - clicking on any one of them reveals its payout data.

It may not be brimming with bonus opportunities, but Hot Cruise is still one of our favourite travel themed slots, Players who have developed a taste for the high life on a shoestring budget should give the Mega Fortune demo slot a try. It’s brimming with glitzy goodies like designer watches and speedboats, along with plenty of bonus win opportunities.

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