Celebrity Equinox: Sanitation Record & Health Report

Let's talk about the Celebrity Equinox, the ship that basically shrugs and says "I'm fine" while everyone else on the fleet is either flexing a spotless record or hiding a citation under the buffet sneeze guard. One CDC inspection on file, dated January 7, 2025, and it came back a 92. That's comfortably past the 86 passing line, though it's sitting a few points under the roughly 95 fleet average — solid, not showoff-y. The catch is the sample size: one inspection means the "all-time average," "5-year average," and "highest/lowest" are all just that same 92 wearing different hats, and the trend is officially insufficient_data, so nobody gets to tell you this ship is trending up, down, or sideways. It simply exists at 92, Zen and unbothered.

Where Equinox actually earns some swagger is food safety: a 94.0 and a "Clean Kitchen" grade, which for a 2009-built Solstice-class ship that got a refurb in 2019 is a pretty solid case that the refresh wasn't just new carpet and mood lighting. Meyer Werft built her, Malta flags her, and at 121,878 tons hauling roughly 2,850 guests and 1,000 crew, she's mid-size by today's ridiculous mega-ship standards — no rock walls or bumper cars, just a ship that seems to actually clean its kitchens. On outbreaks, the CDC's public database is unreachable at the moment, so we're not going to pretend we know either way — no "spotless outbreak record" claims here, just an honest shrug alongside the shrug-worthy inspection sample.

Who it's for: cruisers who want dependable, grown-up Celebrity polish without needing a scoreboard's worth of inspection history to feel reassured — a 92 with a Clean Kitchen badge is a perfectly rational bet. Who should skip it: data hawks and worst-case-scenario planners who want a long paper trail before they hand over a credit card; with just one inspection on record, Equinox hasn't been tested enough times for anyone to call it consistent, only current.