Eurodam: Sanitation Record & Health Report

The Eurodam has been quietly shuttling guests around since 2008, got a top-to-bottom refresh in 2023, and just posted a CDC score of 99 on its most recent inspection — comfortably above both the fleet average of 96.7 and the median of 98 across the 162 ships we track. That's the kind of number that makes a Signature-class ship sound downright immaculate, and for a vessel pushing eighteen years old, a fresh refurb clearly did some heavy lifting. Just don't mistake "one great score" for "a track record" — this is the ship's only inspection on file, so the 99 is technically also its all-time average, its five-year average, its high, and its low, all at once. One data point dressed up as four stats. We'll take the good news, but we're not ready to call a trend on a single sample size.

Food safety lands a "Clean Kitchen" grade at 94.0, which tracks with the strong CDC showing — galley operations here seem to be running tight. What we can't tell you is anything about outbreak history, because that data isn't currently reachable on our end; we're not going to pretend that silence means a spotless record, so consider that column blank rather than green. At 86,273 tons carrying just over 2,100 passengers and nearly 930 crew, Eurodam also sits on the smaller, more intimate end of things for a modern cruise ship — a 12-deck, mid-sized build out of Fincantieri's Marghera yard, sailing under the Dutch flag, which is very on-brand for Holland America.

Who it's for: travelers who want Holland America's calmer, more classic-cruise pace without a mega-ship's crowds, currently splitting time between Fort Lauderdale runs and the Seattle-Vancouver Alaska circuit — so pick your coast and go. The hygiene numbers give you plenty of reason to feel good about what's happening below deck. Who should skip it: anyone who needs a long inspection paper trail before they'll set foot on a gangway, since right now there's exactly one data point to lean on, and anyone hoping to cross-reference outbreak history before booking — that ledger is currently unreadable, not clean.