Which place in HK is best for currency exchange?
Is it Nathan road (Mirrador mansion) or somewher else?
I'm looking for the best rate to sell RMB/buy HKD.
Which place in HK is best for currency exchange?
Is it Nathan road (Mirrador mansion) or somewher else?
I'm looking for the best rate to sell RMB/buy HKD.
Patel's in Chungking Mansions. these guys are reliable and their rates seem to be the best. They are on the right as you enter the mansions. There's a guy called Henry working there who is very helpful.
Check out my favourite spot and their rates are posted daily on their website:
http://berlincompanyexchangelimited.blogspot.com/
Berlin Company Exchange Limited
Room 1703 Chinese Bank Bldg
61-65 Des Voeux Road
Central
tel: 2523 2549
The worse you can do there is have to wait if the day happens to be a hot currency market but there are no fees, no problems and you want to make sure you get a good rate.
Take your passport if it is a large sum of money - I can't recall what sum requires that.
Best rate rmb/hkd i have been able to find is upstairs on first floor of the mall on Sugar st Causeway Bay opposite lok sing centre
they advertise the rate on a sign board at the bottom of the stairs
be careful the other numerous agencies in cwb -they are almost always crap rates
the sugar street mall changer has always given me a better rate than even the smaller changers in shenzen
I just remembered that HKTraveller had done this rate comparison last Feb when someone wanted similar information. This was rates on Feb 22, 2008:
http://www.geoexpat.com/forum/thread30197-2.html
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Since comparison is only possible at the same time, here a result:
Right now:
Berlin Exchange Tel. 2523 3403
USD buy: 7.7930 sell: 7.8080
RMB buy: 1.136364 sell: 1.144165
HSBC premier (electronic transfer rate, not cash)
USD buy: 7.7925 sell: 7.8185
RMB buy: 1.1375 sell: 1.1550 (rounded)
HSBC China (electronic transfer rate, not cash)
RMB buy: 1.138434 sell: 1.147578
China Foreign Exchange 1/F, Chungking Mansion, Tel. 2316 2611
USD buy: 7.787 sell 7.80
RMB buy: 1.137 sell: 1.145
Pacific Exchange, 1/F Chungking Mansion, Tel. 2724 4980
USD buy: 7.785 sell 7.81
RMB buy: 1.135 sell: 1.145475
Do not change at Chungking ground floor, expecially not at the first shops when you come in, and do not change during non banking hours if avoidable, since the spread is bigger then.
Last edited by hktraveller; 22-08-2008 at 09:46 PM.
you can get some good rates if you go inside the world wide centre in central, then go up the esculators to the shopping mall
hhmmm
I have called Berlin and they say HK$ 1,000 buy me Korean Won 157,700
Yahoo converter says around 140,000
and my bank says 130,000
How can that be ?
What's a good rate these days, any Korean here ?
Last edited by Morrison; 09-02-2011 at 04:37 PM.
yahoo is right. current market rate HKD->KRW is at 1HKD to 143KRW.
bank is right as well they make that 10KRW off you for spread.
hit the berlin quote.
It seems odd of whack but they work in a dynamic market situation unlike the ones with the tote boards on the street level kiosks which change irregularly.
I recall one day 3 years or so ago the Canadian dollar was moving up towards 1 - HK8 and I arrived at Berlin only to see a bunch of folks standing on the side not in line. My friend asked what the line was and this guy said he thought they were like him - watching the Canadian dollar creep up a bit more and then sell their cash. I was happy and got my HK dollars and later saw I missed a bit but then again that makes a difference only if it is a large sum. I think it hit 8 that day but I lost so little it was no big deal.