Pacific World: Sanitation Record & Health Report

Let's talk about the Pacific World, a 1995-built Sun-class ship that got a 2018 refresh and is apparently still holding it together at sea. With 2,016 passengers and 924 crew across 14 decks, this is a mid-sized, old-school build compared to the floating cities Royal Caribbean and MSC are launching these days — and honestly, that's part of its charm. It's not trying to be a mega-resort with a surf simulator; it's just a ship, doing ship things, at a fairly modest 77,441 tons.

Here's the catch with the health data: Pacific World has exactly one CDC inspection on record, from October 17, 2025, and it scored a 98. That's genuinely excellent — comfortably above the 86 passing line and sitting right at the fleet-average ceiling of about 95 — but with a sample size of one, every single number on this page (latest, average, five-year, high, low) is the same score because there's nothing else to average against. Call it a strong first impression rather than a proven track record. Score trend is officially "insufficient_data," which is CDC-speak for "check back after a second inspection," so resist the urge to read a trajectory into it either way. Food safety is where this ship actually flexes, with a 100.0 score and the "Spotless Galley" grade — no notes, no sass needed there. As for outbreaks, that data is currently unreachable from CDC's end, so we're not able to tell you the ship is squeaky clean on that front — we just don't know, and we'd rather admit that than make something up.

Who it's for: travelers who like a smaller, more intimate ship with a strong food-safety showing and don't mind that the sanitation record is thin on history. If a single spotless inspection is enough reassurance for you, Pacific World delivers on that. Who should skip it: anyone who wants years of consistent data before they'll set foot on a lido deck, or cruisers chasing the mega-ship bells and whistles — at under 2,100 passengers and pushing 30 years old, this is not that ship.