Crown CDC score

[Jewett]

The Crown gets lots of bad press however I jusr read the detailed CDC reports fron the Crown and the other two ships going to Bermuda from NY. Seems the Crown did the best.

[DeeMarch]

Thanks, but what's a CDC score? (For those of us who don't know)

 

Denise

 

11/10/00 Married my best friend aboard

Grandeur of the Seas

 

Bermuda on the Crown

[newmexicoNita]

it stands for center for desease control and ships as well as other establishments are graded on cleanliness, condition, desease outbreaks, etc. You get the picture. This is good news regardless of the bad press.

 

NMNita

 

Commodore 1984, Costa 1985, RCL 1987, Chandris 1989, NCL 1989, Commodore, 1991, NCL 1997, Carnival 1997, Carnival 1998,NCL 1998, NCL 1999, RCL 2000, RCL 2000, NCL 2002,NCL 2003, Celebrity 2003, NCL 2004

[TonyL200]

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) give each of the ships a score after inspecting them using the following criteria:

 

http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/vsp/Archives/checklis.htm

 

The scores for all of the ships can be found here:

 

http://www2.cdc.gov/nceh/vsp/VSP_RptGreenSheet.asp

 

Unfortunately, though, no matter what the score is, it looks like there is another possible Norwalk outbreak on board this week. Then again, that can happen anywhere that there is a large number of people in one localized area.

[smeyer418]

actually I think they reported this as food poisoning since the Novo virus tests came back negative. Another reason to avoid the buffet.

The QM 2 had a score of 89. All ships that leave or enter US ports are inspected by the CDC. The CDC inspections are quite thorough and you can read the complete report. Most problems are minor(chiped equipment etc) but the major issues are how warm the hot items are kept and how cold the cold ones are kept. I am sure they would prefer not to have these problems.

 

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[brandy3415]

I was most impressed with the conditions of the huge kitchens on the Wind when they had a galley tour quite a while ago. It was part of the REAL kitchen that the 2nd chef us in to. He described in depth the disposal of both liquid and solid kitchen waste and the recycling efforts that go on behind the scenes to lessen the amount of waste that requires disposal at the ports. We were on galley tours on other ships and they were quite "staged" complete with signs, etc. CDC also gives bad marks for wet rags, crumbs on counters, flies, just about anything you would not like to see between meals in any kitchen. When you think of the mess of some restaurant kitchens that you can see in plain sight, cruise ship kitchens that get good marks are sterile in comparison!

[brandy3415]

Wanted to add that I have never seen a CDC report where a Norwegian ship got less than a 95!