Oceania Regatta: Sanitation Record & Health Report

The Oceania Regatta strolled into its latest CDC inspection on November 2, 2025 and walked out with a 99 — the kind of score that makes you wonder if the inspector just wanted to go home early, except no, a 99 is legitimately close to flawless. The catch, and it's a real one: this is the ship's only inspection on record, so that 99 is also the all-time average, the five-year average, the high, and the low, all at once. One data point dressed up as a trend line. We can't tell you if Regatta is on an upswing, a downswing, or holding steady, because there simply isn't enough history yet to say — so file this under "outstanding first impression" rather than "proven track record."

What we can say is the food safety score backs it up: a perfect 100.0, earning the "Spotless Galley" grade, which on a 30,277-ton vessel built in 1998 and refurbished in 2022 is genuinely impressive. This is an R-class ship from Chantiers de l'Atlantique — small, elegant, and pushing 28 years old — and older, smaller ships don't always keep pace with the mega-resorts on hygiene. Regatta is doing exactly that. For context, across the 162 ships we track, the average latest CDC score is 96.7 and the median is 98, so Regatta's 99 lands comfortably above both. We don't have outbreak history to cite either way here — that data wasn't retrievable at the time of writing — so we're not going to pretend we know Regatta's record is spotless on that front. We just know the one inspection it has had was excellent.

Who it's for: travelers who want a smaller, more intimate ship with a genuine post-refurb glow-up and a very clean galley to show for it — the kind of cruiser who cares more about a quiet lido deck than a wave pool. Who should skip it: anyone who needs a deep inspection history before they'll trust a ship, or anyone chasing the outbreak-record receipts, because right now there's only one data point and a gap where the outbreak data should be. Regatta earns real praise for what it's shown so far — it just hasn't shown very much yet.