Celebrity Eclipse: Sanitation Record & Health Report

Let's talk about the Celebrity Eclipse, the ship that's basically the reliable minivan of the Solstice class: not flashy, not new, but it will absolutely get you and your family to Aruba without incident. Launched in 2010 out of Meyer Werft's German shipyard and touched up in 2015, this 121,878-ton veteran has settled into a nice groove splitting its time between Fort Lauderdale, Amsterdam, and the occasional Mediterranean flex out of Piraeus-Athens. And on the one hard data point we've actually got to judge it by, it's acing the assignment: a CDC score of 94 from its March 22, 2026 inspection, which comfortably clears the 86-point passing bar. Compare that to the 96.7 fleet average and 98 median across the 162 ships we track, and yes, Eclipse is running a hair below the pack — but "a hair below excellent" is still excellent, not a red flag.

The real headline here, though, is the food safety score: a 100.0, earning it the "Spotless Galley" designation. That's not "pretty good for a cruise ship," that's the ceiling — the kind of number that makes you wonder if the kitchen staff are just built different. The catch is that this whole glowing report rests on exactly one inspection, so we can't yet tell you whether Eclipse is trending up, down, or sideways — the data's simply too thin to call a trend, and we're not going to pretend otherwise. Think of this less as a verdict and more as a very promising first date. As for outbreaks, CDC outbreak data is currently unreachable on our end, so we're not able to tell you anything about that history one way or the other — we're not going to fill that gap with a guess dressed up as a fact.

Who it's for: travelers who want a mid-sized, well-worn ship that knows what it's doing, especially anyone eyeing that Amsterdam or Piraeus departure for a more European-flavored itinerary without booking a brand-new mega-ship. The Solstice-class bones plus a spotless galley score make a compelling case for anyone who cares more about what's on their plate than about wave pools and go-kart tracks. Who should skip it: data hawks who want years of inspection history to pore over before booking — with just one inspection on the books, Eclipse hasn't built up the track record that ships twice its age have, so you're trusting a single strong snapshot rather than a proven pattern.