Celebrity Constellation: Sanitation Record & Health Report

Let's address the elephant in the dining room: Celebrity Constellation is 24 years old this year, refurbished back in 2021, and it just posted a CDC score of 99. Against a fleet average of 96.7 and a median of 98 across the 162 ships we track, that puts this aging Millennium-class veteran comfortably above the curve — the kind of number that makes newer, flashier ships look sloppy by comparison. Food safety inspectors handed it a 100.0 and the "Spotless Galley" grade, which is about as unambiguous a compliment as this category gets. The catch is the sample size: this is one inspection, dated February 2026, so there's no trend to brag about yet — just a single very clean snapshot rather than a track record.

That asterisk matters, so let's be straight about it: with only one CDC inspection on file, "insufficient data" is the honest label for where this ship is headed, not "flawless forever." We also don't have outbreak data available right now — the CDC's outbreak feed is unreachable — so treat that as an unknown, not a clean bill of health. What we can say is that a 2002-built ship carrying 2,130 passengers and 997 crew across 90,940 tons is holding its own on hygiene in a way plenty of ships half its age fail to manage, and the current itinerary mix — heavy on San Juan, with a solid European run through Civitavecchia and Ravenna — gives it real geographic range for a ship this size.

Who it's for: passengers who want classic mid-size Celebrity cruising — intimate compared to the mega-ships, still refurbished enough to not feel like a museum piece — and who care more about a hygiene report card than about rock walls and go-kart tracks. Who should skip it: anyone chasing the newest bells and whistles, or anyone who wants years of inspection history before they trust a number. Right now Constellation's cleanliness story is a strong opening chapter with only one page written.