HONOLULU (KHON2) — Not sure when the mall closest to you is open? This is your island-by-island mall guide to shopping during the holiday season of chaos and cheer!

Oʻahu

The busiest malls on Oʻahu include: Ala Moana Center, International Market Place, Kahala Mall, Ka Makana Aliʻi, Pearlridge Center, Royal Hawaiian Center, Waikele Premium Outlets and Windward Mall.

Ala Moana

Normally open daily from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., the mall will extend their hours starting Dec. 5–although individual store and restaurant hours may be different.

The following hours are the holiday schedule:

• Nov. 27 (Thanksgiving Day) – Closed
• Nov. 28 (Black Friday) – 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
• Nov. 29 to Dec. 4 (Normal hours) – 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
• Dec. 5 to 23 (Extended hours) – 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
• Dec. 24 (Christmas Eve) – 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• Dec. 25 (Christmas Day) – Closed
• Dec. 26-30 (Extended Hours) – 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
• Dec. 31 (New Year’s Eve) – 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• Jan. 1 (Fukubukuro) – 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

During their extended hours, the mall will close at 8 p.m. on Sundays.

International Market Place

The International Market Place’s hours will not change for the holidays, according to their website.

Monday through Sunday the mall will remain open from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., with varying hours for certain stores and restaurants.

Kahala Mall

Regular mall hours for Kahala are 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. from Monday to Saturday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday.

The following hours are the holiday schedule:

• Nov. 27 (Thanksgiving Day) – Closed
• Nov. 28 (Black Friday) – 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
• Nov. 29 to Dec. 22 (Regular hours) – 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
• Dec. 23 – 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• Dec. 24 (Christmas Eve) – 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• Dec. 25 (Christmas Day) – Closed
• Dec. 26 to 29 (Regular hours) – 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
• Dec. 30 – 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• Dec. 31 (New Year’s Eve) – 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• Jan. 1 (New Year’s Day) – 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

On Jan. 2, 2026, the regular mall hours will begin again for the new year.

Ka Makana Aliʻi

Ka Makana Aliʻi’s hours will not change for the holidays, according to their website.

Monday through Saturday the mall will remain open from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday, with varying hours for certain stores and restaurants.

Pearlridge Center

The mall’s regular hours are from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Monday through Saturday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday.

The following is their extended holiday hours:

• Nov. 27 (Thanksgiving Day) – Closed
• Nov. 28 (Black Friday) – 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
• Nov. 29 – 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
• Nov. 30 to Dec. 7 (Regular hours):
  • Mondays through Saturdays – 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
  • Sundays – 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• Dec. 8 to Dec. 14 – 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
• Dec. 15 to Dec. 19 – 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
• Dec. 20 to Dec. 23 – 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
• Dec. 24 (Christmas Eve) – 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• Dec. 25 (Christmas Day) – Closed
• Dec. 31 (New Year’s Eve) – 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• Jan. 1 (New Year’s Day) – 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Some stores and restaurants may operate with varying hours.

The mall will return to its regular hours starting Dec. 26.

Royal Hawaiian Center

According to their website, Royal Hawaiian Center’s hours will not change for the holidays.

Monday through Sunday the mall will remain open from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., with varying hours for certain restaurants.

Waikele Premium Outlets

Starting on Dec. 1, the following are the extended hours for the center:

• Nov. 27 (Thanksgiving Day) – CLOSED
• Nov. 28 (Black Friday) – 5 a.m. to 11 p.m.
• Nov. 29 – 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.
• Nov. 30 – 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
• Dec. 1 to Dec. 6 – 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
• Dec. 7 – 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
• Dec. 8 to Dec. 12 – 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
• Dec. 13 – 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
• Dec. 14 – 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
• Dec. 15 to Dec. 20 – 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
• Dec. 21 – 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
• Dec. 22 to 23 – 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
• Dec. 24 (Christmas Eve) – 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• Dec. 25 (Christmas Day) – Closed
• Dec. 26 – 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
• Dec. 27 – 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
• Dec. 28 – 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• Dec. 29 to 30 – 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
• Dec. 31 (New Year’s Eve) to Jan. 1 (New Year’s Day) – 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Windward Mall

The mall’s regular hours are from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Monday through Saturday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday.

Extended holiday hours are listed below:

• Nov. 27 (Thanksgiving) – Closed
• Nov. 28 (Black Friday) – 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
• Dec. 24 (Christmas Eve) – 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• Dec. 25 (Christmas Day) – Closed

Kauai

The busiest shopping areas on Kauai include: Kukui Grove Center, Poipu Shopping Village, Princeville Center and The Shops at Kukuiʻula.

Kukui Grove Center

The center’s regular hours are 9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Monday to Thursday, 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday.

Their website doesn’t display any extended holiday hours.

Poipu Shopping Village

The village is open 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. from Monday to Sunday, with individual store hours varying.

Extended holiday hours are not displayed on their website.

Princeville Center

The center’s regular hours are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. from Monday to Sunday.

Their website doesn’t display any extended holiday hours.

The Shops at Kukuiʻula

Regular hours for the shops is 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. from Monday to Sunday, with individual store hours varying.

Shopping hours for Nov. 28 (Black Friday) are 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Maui

The busiest places to shop on Maui include: Maui Mall Village, Queen Kaʻahaumanu Center, The Shops at Wailea and Whalers Village.

Maui Mall Village

From Nov. 17 to 23, the village hours are 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Their website doesn’t display any extended holiday hours.

Queen Kaʻahaumanu Center

The center’s hours are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Monday to Thursday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday to Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday.

Extended holiday hours are not displayed on their website.

The Shops at Wailea

Regular hours at the shops are 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. from Monday to Sunday.

Their website doesn’t display any extended holiday hours or closures.

Whalers Village

The village hours are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. from Monday to Sunday, with individual store and restaurant hours varying.

Extended holiday hours are not yet displayed on their website.

Hawaiʻi Island

The busiest shopping places on Hawaiʻi Island include: Prince Kuhio Plaza, Queens’ Marketplace, The Shops at Mauna Lani and Waimea Center.

Prince Kuhio Plaza

The plaza’s hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday to Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday.

Extended holiday hours are not yet displayed on their website.

Queens’ Marketplace

The marketplace hours are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Monday to Sunday.

Their website doesn’t display extended holiday hours.

The Shops at Mauna Lani

The shops are open on Monday to Sunday with varying hours for each store.

Their website doesn’t display extended holiday hours.

Waimea Center

The Waimea Center hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, and closed on Sunday.

Hours vary for each store, but extended holiday hours are not displayed on their website.

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We spread it across two Saturdays, but we got it done

The Christmas decorations, the indoor ones anyway, are up. Does my wife have too much? Yes. Is that going to be changing anytime soon? Not a chance. She’s worked hard over the years building up this collection.

We usually knock this out in a day and a half or so, but this year we didn’t have consecutive days in a half available to do it in. So we dragged it out over a couple of Saturdays and still managed to get them up before Thanksgiving, as is tradition.

The leaves are all blown into a giant pile for me to tackle and work off my Thanksgiving, then we’ll start worrying about the outdoor decorations which I’ve been told we are dialing down this year.

With a busy Saturday of knocking out the Christmas decorations, I had the multiview going, but didn’t get a chance to watch too much of the action.

I did see that Penn State put another one in the win column, handing Matt Rhule and Nebraska their fourth loss, which you really hate to see.

I also caught that No. 1 Ohio State allowed Rutgers to score 9 points on them. That has to be concerning heading into Saturday’s game against No. 18 Michigan with an undefeated record on the line.

Rutgers should have never crossed mid-field. And the Buckeyes only put up 42? I wouldn’t be too confident rolling into Ann Arbor next weekend.

No finger guns or nose wiping in the NFL

Use finger guns and nose wiping in the NFL at your own risk. We know how dangerous both of the celebrations are and during the offseason the league decided to crackdown on such behavior.

After all, what if little Billy saw that while watching a game? What if he then did that while playing in one of his youth wrapped in bubble wrap games? The NFL doesn’t want his mom blaming them.

You finger gun or nose wipe, flagged or not, and you’re parting ways with $15k. The NFL isn’t having it. You have that sort of fun on your own time when the children aren’t watching.

Dipping

– Jim T in San Diego writes:

I’m not much for wings, TBH. Most “Buffalo style” recipes I’ve had were all heat, no flavor.

But if you’re going to dip in bleu cheese, while Ken’s is fine (per reader Guy from Buffalo), Bob’s Big Boy still sells their salad dressings even though all but one of the original restaurants are gone – https://www.flavorofcalifornia.com/products

If you can find it at your grocery store, it beats Ken hands down.

SeanJo

Hey Jim, thanks for the recommendation. I am a garbage disposal and will eat just about anything, dip or not. If I have a choice between blue cheese and ranch, I go with blue cheese, and I’m not alone in that.

The poll I put up had 60 percent going with blue cheese.

216,206

– Jim in San Diego continues:

That’s the final odometer reading on our 2008 Toyota Sienna. Father Joe’s Villages, the local Catholic homeless program, is coming by the pick it up in a few minutes. I took it for a final spin last night to get a couple cheeseburgers.

I never thought I’d own a minivan – much less get sentimental over one. I mean, I had a ’67 Mustang fastback in college, along with a Yamaha SR 500 cafe racer and an RD200.

But 17 years ago, newly remarried and with a bonus baby on the way, the Taurus wagon blew a head gasket.

So we went to test drive a RAV-4 through the Costco fleet buying program (no haggling!). But the third-row seats were a joke – the seat fronts were so close to the seat backs of the 2nd row, nobody could possibly sit back there (we had 4 kids already, plus the one on the way). And it handled horribly. The salesman could see we weren’t going to buy the RAV4, so he said, “What if I could get you last-year’s model Sienna for the same price as this year’s RAV4?

There was zero chance I was buying a minivan, but my very preggers wife said we should at least test drive it while we were there.

Three Boy Scout summer camps, a cross-country trip to see family in Maryland, moving two kids to college, daily commutes to four different jobs later …

It made me realize that when I bought that ’67 Mustang from a neighbor in 1983, it was 16 years old – but seemed far older.

The Sienna is older now than the Mustang was when I bought it. And I definitely owned the longest of any car I’ve ever had.

Not sexy, not classic, not cool.

But it brought our youngest home from the hospital after she was born, got us to innumerable Scout meetings and youth sports games, carried cases of Girl Scout cookies and Boy Scout popcorn. One time, I got some 40 Costco pizzas in the back to feed volunteers at Scout Fair.

Couldn’t have done that in the Mustang.

SeanJo

That minivan had a hell of a run. We had a couple over the years when the two older kids were little, and they were great. We didn’t do 200,000 with one, but we were pleasantly surprised that we didn’t mind the minivan once we had one.

– Gene in the Rock writes:

Many years ago, the wife of one of my bosses told me at an office Christmas party, “It takes a great brain to be a great dumb blonde.”  She whispered it like a secret, but it wasn’t one for those of us who worked with her husband.  She was a perfect archetype, Marilyn Monroe looks (even at almost 50) disguising a mind like a Siberian bear trap.  Hubby plainly knew he had married a weapon and used her on clients and associates like a stiletto in a back pocket.  They had the most amazing rapport, and needless to say, it was often great fun to sit back and watch.  People who assumed they were dealing with a simple minded trophy wife were in for the rudest of surprises.

Kudos to all the not-so-dumb blondes out there, including Paris.  You go, girls.

– Jayson writes:

Chuck could have gotten Andrew to stand in and take the nipple shot . . . . . For the Team.

Bigfoot

– Gene writes:

So, in the age of cell phone cameras that EVERYONE carries, this guy couldn’t get a picture? C’mon, this is why Bigfoot is known as the Hide-and-Seek world champ.

SeanJo

It’s almost as if they don’t exist. Almost. I’ve never seen any evidence personally, and I’ve never had a chance to either not pull out my phone to document an encounter or snap a blurry picture of a shadow or bear either. Hopefully, one day I get that chance.

Smoked turkey

– Guy writes:

Early Thanksgiving dinner. 5 hour smoke.

SeanJo

It looks great, Guy. Thankfully, I am never stuck with the responsibility of preparing one. This year will be no different. We’re heading over to my brother’s house.

If you are the one that is responsible for preparing the turkey, be careful if you’re deep-frying that bad boy.

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That’s all for this Sunday. It’s Thanksgiving week already. It’s hard to believe it’s here, but it is. We’ll be staring down Christmas in a few short days.

I’ll be back on Screencaps duty, I believe, on Wednesday. Until then, enjoy an NFL Sunday and a couple of hopefully light days of work.

Send your Thanksgiving Day menu. If you don’t have turkey, what do you have, and what are your go-to sides and desserts?

As always, I want to see you meat. Send it and anything else you’d like my way sean.joseph@outkick.com. Follow me on Twitter or over on Instagram.

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