Norwegian Bliss: Sanitation Record & Health Report

Norwegian Bliss walked into its September 2025 inspection with a 93 and walked out of its February 2026 recheck with a perfect 100, which is the kind of glow-up arc that would get a montage if this were a reality show. That climb is the whole story here: an improving trend backed by receipts, not vibes, and it lands the ship at a 96.5 average that's basically in line with the fleet-wide latest-score average of 96.7 across the 162 ships we track. Nothing about the CDC file suggests you should be side-eyeing the buffet. We don't have outbreak data available for this one, so we're not going to pretend the ship has some spotless illness-free history — we just genuinely don't know, and neither does anyone waving around unverified claims in your cruise forum of choice.

Context matters for a ship this size. Bliss is a Breakaway Plus workhorse out of Meyer Werft, built in 2018 and freshly refurbished in 2025, hauling over 4,000 passengers and 1,700 crew across 168,028 tons of Pacific-coast ambition. This is not a boutique experience — it's Norwegian's big Seattle-and-New-York player, the one doing Alaska glacier runs and West Coast repositioning cruises at scale, and a 100 on the most recent inspection after refurbishment is exactly the outcome you want from a ship that just got a top-to-bottom refresh. Two inspections total is a thin sample size, so let's not crown it "cleanest ship afloat" off two data points — but a jump from 93 to 100 post-refurb is a legitimately good sign that whatever galley or ventilation gremlins existed got sorted.

Who it's for: Alaska-bound travelers sailing from Seattle, New York-based cruisers who don't want to fly cross-country first, and anyone who wants a big, splashy, feature-loaded ship — go-kart track and laser tag included — backed by a recent clean-slate inspection. Who should skip it: passengers who get anxious about any historical dip below a perfect score and want a decade of spotless paper trail before booking, or anyone hoping for outbreak-history reassurance we simply can't give them right now. For everyone else, the data says this ship is trending the right direction at the right time.