Arcadia: Sanitation Record & Health Report

Let's get one thing straight: the Arcadia showing up with a CDC score of 96 off a single inspection is the ship equivalent of acing a test you only sat once — technically impressive, statistically thin. That 96 is the latest score, the all-time average, the five-year average, and the highest score, all because there's exactly one data point on the books, logged 2026-03-20. We can't tell you if this Vista-class veteran is trending up, down, or sideways because the trend is officially insufficient_data — one inspection doesn't give you a trend, it gives you a snapshot, and this snapshot happens to be a flattering one.

Built in 2005 and refurbished in 2023, Arcadia is proof that a mid-life facelift can actually pay off. A 96 clears the CDC's 86-point passing bar with room to spare, and it edges past the roughly 95-point fleet average — solid work for an 84,342-ton ship pushing 21 years old. The food safety side backs it up with a 94.0 and a "Clean Kitchen" grade, so whatever's happening in the galleys on this 2,094-passenger, 866-crew Fincantieri build out of Bermuda registry is working. We just can't tell you if it'll keep working, because the CDC hasn't come back to check its homework yet. And on outbreaks, we're staying quiet on purpose — that data is currently unreachable, so we're not about to hand out a "clean record" badge we can't back up.

Who it's for: cruisers who want a mid-sized, refurbished ship with a genuinely strong (if lonely) inspection score and don't mind that the health-inspection paper trail is still short. Who should skip it: anyone who treats a single 96 as gospel or needs years of consistent scores before they'll set foot on a gangway — with Total Inspections sitting at 1, Arcadia hasn't had the chance to prove it yet. The number's excellent. The sample size is doing all the heavy lifting.