The christening of a cruise ship Wednesday had Mayor Michael Bloomberg thinking about vacation.

Speaking aboard Norwegian Cruise Line’s new 1,062-foot-long Norwegian Breakaway, which will sail out of the terminal on Manhattan’s West Side, Mr. Bloomberg promised the leaders of Bermuda and the Bahamas — both of whom were in the audience — that he would be spending much more time on their islands once his mayoralty ends on Dec. 31.

The billionaire mayor has fastidiously refused to discuss his weekend whereabouts and vacation locales during his 12-year run at City Hall. But he owns property in Bermuda and his company’s planes often fly there, as a Wall Street Journal investigation found.

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