Stad Amsterdam: Sanitation Record & Health Report

Let's talk about the Stad Amsterdam, a ship that has apparently sailed under the radar of CDC inspectors for most of its existence — because in our entire database, it's got exactly one inspection on record, dated June 5, 2025, and it came back with a score of 86. That's not a typo, and it's not a trend, because with a sample size of one, "trend" isn't a word we get to use here. Score Trend reads insufficient_data, and we're not going to pretend otherwise just to make this verdict sound more dramatic. An 86 is a pass — technically. It's also the exact floor of passing, which means this is the CDC equivalent of squeaking by on a final exam with the minimum grade to not retake the class.

Here's where it gets more interesting: that 86 puts Stad Amsterdam well below the fleet-wide average latest CDC score of 96.7 (median 98) across the 162 ships we track. This isn't a ship coasting near the top of the class — it's sitting in the range where inspectors clearly found things worth writing up, even if we don't have the granular violation list in front of us. Meanwhile, the food safety side tells a rosier story: a 94.0 and a "Clean Kitchen" grade, which suggests whatever knocked the sanitation score down wasn't happening in the galley. On outbreaks, we're going to be straight with you — CDC outbreak data is currently unreachable for this ship, so we can't tell you it's outbreak-free, and we're not going to guess. Data gaps aren't the same as a clean bill of health.

So who's this for? If you're the type who reads a passing score and moves on with your life, an 86 technically clears the bar, and the strong food safety grade is a genuine point in its favor — this isn't a ship where you should expect your dinner to be the problem. Who should skip it? Anyone who treats "compared to the fleet average" as gospel, because right now Stad Amsterdam is sitting about 10 points under where most of its peers land, on a single data point that hasn't been retested. We'd call this one a "wait and see" — book it if the itinerary is calling your name, but don't expect us to hand out a gold star on sanitation until there's more than one inspection to back it up.