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Nov 15, 2011 | 3:34 pm

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Captain Schmidt

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Originally Posted by wco81

According to a TripAdvisor article, it's cheaper to buy at kiosks near Airport Express than to buy at a vending machine?

So I plan to load at least the round-trip fare for Airport Express, which should be about $160? The Octopus card should be $150 which includes $100 of credit.

I know that they will refund the $50 deposit but do they refund the unused credit?

Or will the Octopus Card store that credit for years or is it best not to have credit remaining and to get your deposit back if you may not be back in HK for years?

$160 is the round-trip price to Kowloon - it's $180 to Central. I'm also not sure about if the Octopus is smart enough to figure out to only charge you $80 for the return journey if a period of days elapses though I do know it can handle the same-day return as I've done that a number of times.

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