MSC Seashore: Sanitation Record & Health Report

MSC Seashore rolled out of Fincantieri's Monfalcone yard in 2021 as part of the Seaside Evo class, got a refurb this year, and just posted its first CDC inspection on the books: a 94. That's the only data point we've got — one inspection, one score, which means the "trend" column reads insufficient_data because there literally isn't a second number to compare it to yet. Still, a 94 clears the passing bar of 86 with room to spare, and it lands the ship a "Clean Kitchen" food safety grade, so whatever the galley crew is doing on this 170,412-ton, 19-deck floating small city, it's working. That said, 94 sits a bit below the 96.7 average and well off the 98 median across the 162 ships we track — solid, not showroom-perfect.

Here's the catch: we don't have outbreak history for this one. CDC's outbreak data is currently unreachable, so we're not going to sit here and tell you MSC Seashore has a spotless record, because we don't actually know that — we just don't have the receipts either way. One inspection and one unknown outbreak column is a thin file for a ship carrying up to 4,560 passengers and 1,648 crew across the Atlantic out of Port Canaveral 49 times on the current schedule. Give it a year and a few more health department visits before you crown it.

Who it's for: cruisers who want a brand-new-ish (well, freshly refurbed) mega-ship with a genuinely good — if not chart-topping — food safety showing, sailing conveniently out of Port Canaveral, and who aren't losing sleep over a single-data-point CDC file. Who should skip it: anyone who needs a multi-year inspection track record before they hand over a deposit, or who wants outbreak transparency before boarding — right now there's simply no outbreak data to point to, clean or otherwise, so if that's a dealbreaker for you, wait for CDC's next report card.