Hong Kong Take Away

Some of you may remember one of my Ramblings of a Scottish Madman posts from last year, where I spoke about currency here in the UK.

Well, there was an interesting story in the papers over the weekend about the exchange rate for Scottish notes, compared to English notes at a hotel in Hong Kong.

Although the value of Scottish and English notes is identical, this particular hotel has in fact decided they are different.

The hotel in question is the Sheraton in Tsim Sha Tsui.

The hotel pays 14.10 local dollars to the pound for the English notes, but only 11.90 for the Scottish variety.

I'd like to say that if I ever make it to Hong Kong I'll avoid this hotel like the plague, but as it's a luxuary 5 star, I doubt I could afford it anyway.