Whalers General Store

Forget something? And you’re staying at a nearby resort? This is your place! So far we’ve managed to stop in for beer, water, chocolate milk, snacks, ice cream, flip flops, souvenirs, Hawaiin chocolates… you get the drill.

I came here about every other day when I was staying at the royal Kahana. Very convienent little store! If you need some random little item for your room or snacks go here. We got fruit and water and coffee for our room. They have gift items too.

When you pass this place on the highway, just around Kahana, it looks just like the Mini Mart for a gas station, but oh no… You would be wrong to assume such a thing.
Walk through the doors and you will find EVERYTHING you could possibly need and some that you don’t need, but you’ll suddenly want.
— Hot AND Cold pre-​made foods, ranging from chicken nuggets to Spam Musubi (if you don’t like Spam, get the hell off my island) and sandwiches & salads. Saimin? Maybe.
— Candy, Nuts, Gum, Drinks, and all the other items you’d find at a mini mart.
— Sunchairs
— Umbrellas
— Coolers
— Watches
— Shirts
— Little Bosnian children. Oh wait… I think I dreamt that. Scratch that.
— Every sunscreen under the sun
— Glasses (RX and sunglasses)
— Dashboard Hula Girl
— Necklaces, Earrings and Hairpins
— Flavors of Macadamia nuts that you may have never heard of.
— Jewelry boxes
— Snow globes
— And all sorts of other nifty trinkets and knick-​knacks.
So, why not a fifth star? Because, yes, it’s a bit pricey. If you thought shopping at a store that doubles as a gas station mini-​mart was gonna be cheap, you thought wrong, friend. This is more like an ABC store, but a little smaller than most ABCs, and attached to a gas station. It really rocks socks! So, I say a big mahalo to WGS for always impressing me, year after year, with really cool schtuff.

Overpriced! You can find just about anything they have for less at other touristy shops and the ABC store.
That being said it does have a good selection of snacks, food, drinks, beer/​wine/​liquor and touristy items.
It was clean and had friendly service. But my first stop was always ABC store cause it was certainly cheaper for the exact same stuff.

Steph L. = thanks for the tip for Spam Musubi!
Went in here after getting coffee to do some quick souvenir shopping and it’s decent. They have the typical stuff from ABC and I just got a couple of chocolates for my cousin’s kids and some guava jelly. I decided to check out their hot food section and saw that they had two spam musubi left so I quickly got that onto my basket.
Overall, the place is clean and friendly (most of the folks that work there were Pinoys) so I felt right at home =)
Once I got home: I ate the spam musubi and it was tasty but after drinking beer and sun bathing in the sun… I was exhausted. Next time I plan on fully eating it before I do anything else.
PS: if your rental doesn’t have a washer/​dryer, next door is a laundry mat and it looks clean from the outside =)

I’m giving this place a 4 instead of a 5 only because I’ve tried the musubi there and not anything else. This is my first time having musubi and I bought a spam one as well as a chicken teriyaki one. The spam one was terrific but I have to say that I really love the chicken teriyaki one. The prices were ok – it was around $ 2.50 for the chicken one and a little cheaper for the spam. Thanks to Steph L. for your review and suggestion to come here to try musubi!

Passionate Musubi Lovers:
5 stars for amazing musubi! I’ve searched the island for a better spam musubi (yes, I did a Tour de Musubi… as in a musubi every day for two weeks) to no avail! Years ago, the lady working there told us her «secret ingredient», and since then spam musubis around the island aren’t the same without it! The chicken musubi isn’t bad either, although I can’t compare it to anything else as I’ve never eaten it elsewhere. They’re usually sold out by late morning though, so hurry! Although… I hope this review doesn’t increase traffic, resulting in less musubi for me… -.-

I can’t even begin to describe how excited I was by Whalers’ huge bin of 6 for $ 20 tee-​shirts. They carried children’s sizes through XXXL in a variety of colors with Maui and Hawaii references printed on them (island maps, surfing, whale watching, hang loose signs, hibiscus flowers, turtles, hula dancers, etc.). We bought 12 — most of them for ourselves, and a few of them as «all I got was this lousy shirt» gifts.
I also found Whalers to be an excellent place to buy random items we needed, such as snacks (pre-​cut melon for $ 2 per little bucket), birthday candles (cashier gave me free matches), insulated soft-​sided bags ($ 5 each — leaked a little when we put ice directly in, but I don’t think that was the intended use) and coconut bras (because everyone needs a coconut bra, especially at 20% off ABC Store prices).
When you hit $ 40 in purchases, you get a free plastic tote bag covered in hawaiian phrases. Practically every group on our flight home was carrying one.
We were staying just across the street, so this was the best location for us, and seemed to be better stocked than many others. Some of the local condos/​resorts that are within walking distance of this particular Whalers include Valley Isle Resort, Sands of Kahana, Outrigger Royal Kahana, Kahana Reef Association and Kahana Village.