Your first grocery run

The suite has a real kitchen, and using it is how a Maui week stays affordable. Here's the efficient version of the first shop.

On the drive from the airport

The warehouse club and the big-box stores sit ten minutes from OGG, right on your route south. If you're here a week or more, one basket of staples — coffee, breakfast, snacks, sunscreen, a case of water bottles for the beach cooler — pays for the detour. Don't buy produce here; better is coming.

In Kīhei

The local supermarkets along South Kīhei Road cover everything else and stay open late. Prices are higher than the mainland — that's the shipping, not the store gouging you. Local eggs, Maui-grown greens, and the poke counter are the things worth paying for.

The farm stands

Upcountry farms sell at stands and Saturday markets around the island. Kula strawberries, Haʻikū bananas that make mainland bananas taste like packing foam, and whatever was picked yesterday. Bring cash, go early, ask what's good this week — the answer changes and it's always right.

What's already in the suite

Salt, pepper, olive oil, coffee filters, and a proper coffee grinder with local beans for your first two mornings. Check the pantry before you shop; the last guests' unopened extras stay if they're sealed.