Carnival Cruise Line is one of the industry’s behemoths, operating more than two dozen ships that sail across the globe. But it also has a more dubious distinction of late, with three of its ships landing on the lowest end of the cleanliness spectrum,

Keeping up a 100-point ranking of cruise ship cleanliness that it updates for each ship every two years, the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC) currently has 13 ships that fell below 90 points when it comes to cleanliness — of those,

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new data on the most and least sanitary cruise ships of 2024. Ten cruise ships received scores of 89 or lower; a score of 85 or below is considered “not satisfactory.