59 cents to get in, low end flea market. Most items are of discount store quality. Nothing to get really expected about, unless you are looking for deals on laundry items or imitation perfumes and colognes. Just not a lot of stuff I'd expect to see at a flea market. read more

Big Top Flea Market - 50 cent admission, plenty of free parking - Flea Markets Near Me - Providence, Rhode Island

Unless you want over priced crap that's made to break, stear clear. It was not worth the .50 admission.

They have literally everything, especially impressive array of old stereo equipment, instruments, etc. 50 cents to get in.

So many things, random, practical, absurd. It's a fun time if you aren't expecting any thing. It's a huge, meandering space with lots of vendors. Everything is pretty affordable. Some similar things you'd find at nicer markets like the Providence Flea, just not as organized or done up. Some stuff is downright cheap and cheap-looking, but there are treasures. Bought some sewing machine thread and a pack of surgical masks for like $4. Again, don't expect no Louis Vuitton experience here!! read more

Great place to look around with a wide variety of items. Clothes, collectibles, homegoods, kids toys, blankets, masks, shoes and more. Good mix of new and vintage; sellers were very nice. The place is a bit of a maze but in a good way. It was really fun to walk around and each seller was pretty unique. We spent about an hour looking around; but you could easily spend all day here. If you like Anime Figures or Funko Pops: this place is a hidden gem! Lots of cool stuff to browse. read more

Affordable items for cool Tim boots but overall looks like a horders episode stressses me out & very overwhelming. Smells weird. All the items look like they from wish.com off brand everything! read more

They rent our office space for businesses and the electricity is included in the rent. The Maintenance man Rob bullies the tenants by shutting off their electric pulling the electric meter out. He dumped a bunch of furniture and trash in the karate studio when no one was there and scraped up the floor. The rent wasn't even due yet and he shut the electric off. He tears apart the hallways and never finishes jobs in the building. The hallways have been a mess for over a year now because he never finished painting. Most of the tenants are sick of the crap going on. Numerous complaints have been made to the office and the woman in charge does nothing about it. They want to go up on the rent now with everyone and the place is all torn up. Far as the flea market... looks like you stepped back into the 80s and smells like the same stuff has been there since the 80s mixed with knock offs of sneakers, perfume, cologne, just about anything really. Feels, looks and smells like a third world country. No cleanliness whatsoever. Then they over charge you on junk, looks like an episode of the show hoarders. You can get better deals on the real name brand stuff at Walmart. ONLY PLUS! The only time you can find good deals is the temporary stands outside. Some of the security staff are very helpful. read more

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Ditching plans to go ice skating on an intensely blustery day. . . alternate ideas were tossed around last minute and it was decided that we would try to find "that flea market I always see advertised from the highway". Somehow, lacking exact coordinates and utilizing trial and error while driving the back roads, we came across the Big Top Flea Market. Parking is free as well as entrance on Saturdays. 50 cents admission on Sundays. Upon entering the warm, stuffy, and stale aired atmosphere of the main level of the market, I was bombarded with a plethora of sights and sounds. With all intentions of simply browsing around, we began strategically maneuvering the aisles of vendors scattered around the premises. Knockoffs of all varieties, products straight out of the 80s, and plain 'ol junk supplied most of the spaces. A large shoe store at one end caught and entertained my attention for a while. We both ended up with a pair of shoes. . . and like every good boyfriend should, he haggled a lower price for our kicks and ultimately supported my growing shoe collection. Other than the shoe store, my favorite vendor was that of the guys selling games and systems as far back as the original NES. It is certainly getting more difficult as the years pass to find good collections of Super Nintendo, N64, etc games to support these fading remnants of our gaming pasts. They even repair old systems if need be! Something to keep in mind. . . Despite my surprising finds, I doubt I would return here anytime soon. There are far more (and better!) flea markets around to demand my money, time, and efforts. As much as I like digging around and finding a good deal, I saw very little that attracted and enticed my potential return. There was a head shop there that wasn't open. . . perhaps another time. . . read more

Open until 5 on Sat & Sunday. This flea market is more vendors than people selling their stuff. You can find some gems at the tables of people just selling their junk. 50 cents to get in on Sunday. You can also find a lot of cheap jewelry, bags and accessories. Cheap in price AND quality. Free parking in giant parking lot and there are also other stores inside including a huge shoe store with great prices shoes and a gigantic bong store... Er... Head shop. read more

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what a bunch of idiots running this flea market. went there today, whole building was flooded. wont go back there. they lost my money. cheap idiots, fix the problem. wasted an hour of my day because you cant fix your flooding problem. what a dump. read more

Some cool finds but some of the vendors are rude. Kind of dusty, the smoke shop he some cool things and the lady in there was super nice. read more

Big Top Flea Market - First time here let's see how it goes - Flea Markets Near Me - Providence, Rhode Island

Cheap to go but some rooms look like a bad episode of a hoarders that is going to fall on top of you. Plenty of free parking. Some interesting items. I didn't buy anything there. Lots of cool knifes swords etc if you are into that. Otherwise a lot of dirty junk. read more

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Great place, they have just about everything you can think of. It was also cleaner than you would think inside, it cost $.50 to get in when we went but parking is free. read more

Great bargains, clean and bright. Everyone is wearing masks. Bathrooms are clean. Nice fall decorations.

This place is a shanty town. Knock off purses, nail polish so cheap is has to have formaldehyde in it and a ton of 80s electronics like Nintendo games, vcrs and video rewind machines. Not worth the time. Raynham Flea is much better than this. read more

I've been MIA all these months due to unfortunate, temporary unemployment. Unemployment typically = conservation of dinero. Which typically = no shopping/nothing new to review. However, in my 'lil neck of the woods, it also means thrifty fun on Sundays with Charlie and what better place to stop than the Big Top. ....... which isn't nearly as grand nor adventurous as I remember it being from my childhood. I have many 'a fond memory of buying lemonade and fruit from the vendors parked along the streets, digging through the seemingly infinite boxes of toys, books and games and watching the pet shop animals in awe at the top of the long, spiraling case of stairs. All of which, are gone. Granted things will naturally change with time, but unfortunately for Big Top, most if not nearly all of the individual sellers are gone and in their place, are vendors. All selling.. the same crap. Want a knock off Burberry silk scarf? We gotcha covered! ....The exact same patterned items, from the same cheap company, available well, anywhere. We quickly noticed a pattern. While digging through at least five or six vendors' stacks of boxes, we spied the same exact items in the same packaging as the previous sellers. Over. And over. Again. As for the very few individuals selling legitimate used goods? Expect plenty of way overpriced junk electronics, bootlegged Spanish CDs and dime a dozen, jacked up NES games. No comics, no books, no retro trinkets. Nada. This makes for one overhyped snoozefest of a shopping extravaganza. The only booth we found mildly interesting was a mini Asian dollar store in the back. Loads of baskets full of fluorescent hair clips, AA batteries clearly from the 80s, pastel coloured nylon panties and plastic Spiderman silverware. It's so seriously not worth it when there are a wealth of other flea markets in the hood. Unless you're specifically looking for bottom of the barrel fake Coach bags or bootlegged Timabalands, I would definitely head elsewhere. ....You know you're in trouble when a booth accepts VISA. read more

Went today and the man at the door was friendly to me and my family but got into a argument with the people behind us for no apparent reason! Unless you're in search of old video games, overpriced junk from China, a knife, sword, or pot pipe this is not the place to go shopping. Lots of empty spaces and crabby vendors. Bring cash and your Spanish language skills. read more

Not a flea market in the sense you'd think. Mostly people selling items bought at wholesale and a knock off shoe joint. Not really a place to sift for antiques or one of a kind things. Do come here if you need cheap phone cases, costume jewelry, knives, and glass pieces. read more

It's not what people from the south would call a flea market! It's more of an inner city indoor selling place for imported knock offs. Not that that is bad in any way. It's just not what you think of, if you're from the south. We stuck out like glow bugs in that place (a very "culturally diverse" location), but everyone was nice. If you're looking for antiques, furniture, airbrushed T-shirts, pets, shotguns/rifles, used household stuff...this may not be for you. If you're looking for bumper stickers, "cultural" clothing, switchblades, brass knuckles, 80s TVs and stereo stuff...this may be for you. The one cool thing I saw was outside...a king sized Yankees throw blanket. read more

Do not go here. As someone from Boston who drove to Providence for the day I didn't know exactly where to go- so we popped in here and ignored the already 1.5 star rating. Immediately we knew we didn't belong here. Lol. We walked around and laughed at the crap these people were trying to sell- if your looking for a pack of 6 cheap bras for $10 or a pair of cheaply made off brand shoes for $12 than you've found the right place. They even have shampoo for $3 and a fortune teller. There's bright yellow knock off MK bags that are listed NK. (Think China town in NYC but much worse and sketchier. We went to one booth and the woman was really pushing clothing on us. Wait wait wait. Pushing 1970's-1980's clothing. She tried to sell me a suit with a fur coat- am I a pimp? Anyways- my friend wasn't finding what she wanted and was trying to be nice to the lady and when we decided to move on to the next booth she invited my friend to her back room so she could "pick through a private rack". (My friend was carrying a Louis Vuitton bag).. The woman seemed to be making this "rack" up on the spot. No idea what intentions she had in the back room. Needless to say- if you can afford a phone and are using it to check yelp reviews- I would stay away from this place. Take your chances at Target. read more

Found some nice deals, video games, and a couple of gag gifts for up coming party. Overall found a few booths that contained the same stuff, i.e. dollar store type stuff, handbags, sun glasses and ladies stuff (sun dresses, bras and under garments). Was way to much junk jewelry and hair clips everywhere and some slightly over priced! Bathrooms were clean and Food was great at Snack Bar, couldn't believe the burger and fries. Burger was nice and fresh with great flavor and fries, OMG real potato's cut fresh. Service was alittle slow to order but well worth the wait. Had a clean place to sit and eat but tables needed a little TLC (Make-over). Over all front half of flea market was great, shoe store, snack bar, antiques, phone shop, gift shop and hand soaps all what we expected the rest, was People yelling over old junk at top prices. But all and all was nice place to check out. PS they still don't accept credit cards but now have an ATM on site. read more