Enchanted Princess: Sanitation Record & Health Report

Let's get one thing out of the way: a CDC score of 93 on a single inspection is the cruise-ship equivalent of acing your first pop quiz — technically impressive, but the teacher hasn't seen enough of your homework to hand out a permanent grade yet. Enchanted Princess pulled that 93 on its lone recorded inspection (January 6, 2026), and while that clears the passing bar of 86 with room to spare, it's sitting below the 162-ship fleet average of 96.7 and well off the median of 98. Is that a red flag? Not really — it's more of a "check back later" flag. With only one data point, there's no trend to chase (insufficient data, and we're not going to pretend otherwise), no history of slip-ups to gossip about, and no pattern of improvement or decline to analyze. The food safety side actually shines brighter: a 94.0 and a "Clean Kitchen" grade suggest the galleys are running tighter than the inspection sample size implies.

Context matters here, too. This is a 2021-built, 2023-refurbished Princess Royal-class ship — practically a newborn by cruise industry standards, with the new-ship smell of updated equipment and fresh protocols working in its favor. At 145,281 tons and carrying 3,668 passengers across 18 decks, it's a substantial vessel, but it hasn't had the years of inspection cycles that let older fleet mates build a decades-long report card. We can't tell you whether it's been outbreak-free, spotless, or squeaky-clean, because CDC outbreak data is currently unreachable — so we're not going to manufacture a clean bill of health out of thin air. What we can say is that nothing in the numbers we do have suggests any cause for alarm.

So who should book this one? If you're chasing a newer ship with modern bones, splitting time between Mediterranean glamour out of Civitavecchia-Rome and Caribbean sun from Fort Lauderdale, Enchanted Princess is a solid bet — the single inspection on record is a comfortable pass, and the food safety grade should ease any buffet anxiety. Who should maybe wait a cycle? The data-hungry cruiser who wants a long paper trail before committing — with just one inspection logged, you're taking a bit of a leap of faith on the health record, even if everything currently visible says "fine, actually."