Seabourn Encore: Sanitation Record & Health Report

Seabourn Encore struts in with a 96 on its most recent CDC inspection (July 27, 2026), and honestly, for a 532-passenger mega yacht that's basically a rounding error away from perfect. Its three-inspection history reads 96, 100, 96 — a brief flirtation with a flawless 100 in December 2025 before settling back to a "stable" trend, per the data. That's a 97.3 average across both the all-time and 5-year windows, comfortably clearing the fleet-wide ~95 benchmark and miles past the 86 pass line. This isn't a ship sweating over compliance; it's a ship that treats a perfect score as a baseline expectation and shrugs when it "only" hits 96.

The food safety score sits at 94.0, earning a "Clean Kitchen" grade — solid, though notably the softest number on Encore's whole report card. It's the kind of gap that won't show up on a passenger's radar but is worth noting for anyone who likes their data with no rounding: this is a ship excelling at sanitation broadly while the galley itself runs merely very good rather than flawless. On outbreaks, current CDC data is unreachable for this ship, so we're not going to pretend to hand you a clean-slate narrative we can't back up — treat that column as pending, not as a verdict.

Who it's for: travelers who want ultra-luxury, small-ship intimacy — think all-suite cabins, a 532-guest headcount, and a nearly 1:1.6 crew ratio — paired with inspection numbers that back up the champagne-and-caviar marketing instead of undercutting it. Who should skip it: anyone chasing mega-ship spectacle, water slides, or Broadway-style production shows, because a 40,350-ton yacht built for quiet elegance was never going to compete on that front — and if you need a spotless food safety score to sleep at night, know that 94.0 is very good, not perfect.