Regal Princess: Sanitation Record & Health Report

Regal Princess rolls into this verdict with a CDC score of 98 — miles clear of the 86-point line where ships start sweating, and sitting above the roughly 95 fleet average to boot. That's also exactly where her all-time average and 5-year average land, so this isn't a fluke score propped up by one good inspection day. The catch: there have only been three inspections on record (100 on May 12, 2026, a dip to 96 on June 9, then back up to 98 on June 19), which is a thin enough sample that the "declining" trend label is more of a yellow flag than a five-alarm fire. A 2014-built, Fincantieri-constructed Princess Royal-class ship that just came out of a 2025 refurbishment should be running clean, and by these numbers, she mostly is — just don't mistake three data points for a decade of proof.

Where things get more interesting is the galley. A 96.0 food safety score earns Regal Princess the "Spotless Galley" grade, which sounds like the kind of compliment a health inspector gives through gritted teeth — solid, not flawless, and worth keeping an eye on given the inspection scores are trending the same slightly-wobbly direction. On outbreaks, we're not going to pretend to have an answer: CDC outbreak data wasn't pullable for this ship at time of writing, so we're not chalking up a clean record here — we simply don't have the receipts either way, and neither should you until someone does.

Who it's for: mainstream Princess loyalists who want a mid-size, recently refreshed ship with genuinely strong sanitation scores and don't need to obsess over a single-point wobble between inspections. Who should skip it: anyone who wants a bulletproof, decade-deep inspection history before they board, or cruisers who get twitchy the second a score chart shows a dip — even a small one on an otherwise passing ship. Regal Princess isn't hiding anything alarming here, but with only three inspections to go on, she hasn't quite earned an unqualified gold star either.