Traders Village

Best shopping experience! Trader's village is a Family spot, been coming to this location for years. It has surely grown & more people hearing about this place. Coolers are allowed with whatever you would like to bring for you and your family. Summer days bring water! & wear sunscreen Don't worry they have all sorts of hats if you forget one! Some months have live music and events.

We visited here on a Sunday afternoon expecting a nice flea / farmer's market and were greeted with a portal to a third-world country. Garbage, abused animals, unaccompanied children, stolen goods, and gunpowder fire poppers litter the entire area. The place is packed with people blasting loud music with no regard to the others around them.We walked around for a little bit and immediately left, we felt so uncomfortable. Most of the items being sold are bulk junk from Amazon or AliExpress. The conditions that some "pet" sellers were keeping their animals in brought me to tears and I filed a report with the Grand Prairie Animal Control who said that I was far from the first person to report abuse here.Not a safe place for children, families, or anyone who has a heart for animals.

If you like flea markets, this is definitely a place to stop when visiting Dallas. This is one of the largest flea market I've ever been in. Parking is five dollars that you pay as you pull in. I found this to be odd as I've never paid parking at a Flea Market in my life. There are the main covered areas with storage facilities that the vendors open and set their shops up every morning. There's also covered areas where vendors can set up their tables on a temporary type basis and then on the outer ring, all around are the very temporary vendors that come and go as they set up. Anything from one to several tables to sell their wears. A great variety of products as well as a food court and children's rides with a roller coaster in the middle. Plenty of food vendors scattered throughout the market as well. Lots of fun for all and great place to walk and shop.

We had the best time here. I was a little worried after reading the reviews, but we loved it. There were so many great vendors. The food was fantastic!!!! Go hungry and bring cash. You'll have a great time.

My family and I come to Trader's Village for 3 main things - The Hot Links, the Elotes, the Turkey Legs. Everything else is a bonus like their funnel cakes and fruit cups. Coming here you shouldn't have high expectations, I mean it's in the name "Trader's" so if you're not a haggler or you expect 5 star service, do not come on the village grounds. The parking fee has gone up but it's a small fee. Would recommend coming for the experience and advise to go before the morning church crowd lets out.

Ahh, Traders Village. Absolutely enormous. So much to see. $5 to park, free entry, and then you're off... You can seriously spend a lot of time here, especially if the weather is right. It's like an amusement park meets a farmers market meets a flea market. And flea market includes everything under the sun, from cars to furniture to antiques to new clothes to local art to seasonal decor and more. Sooooo much more. And you're allowed to barter! The grounds are covered in endless rows of vendors, rides, carnival-type games, and food and drink stands. There's a few stages and live music. Some of the vendor stand are super small, some are set up like an actual indoor store. Some are beautifully organized and some are a filled with piles of treasure to dig through. You'll find multiple produce stands with probably the largest variety of seasonal fruits and veggies I've ever seen set up outdoors, with items I'm less familiar with like different types of cactus, lychee, passion fruit, and kumquat. They seem to have every pepper, tomato, and squash; just perpetual rainbows of variety.As far as food goes, they've got several different stands and little outdoor restaurants serving things like turkey legs, corn dogs, hot links, street tacos, Thai food, funnel cakes, roasted corn and elote, nachos, slushies... Then there's a large indoor spot with AC called Gary's Grill for hamburgers, hotdogs, nuggets, fries, etc. Plenty of food options. There's even wine, beer, and those frozen wine-based "margaritas." Then there's the rides... just go look at their list online hahaha: tradersvillage.com/grand-prairie/rides/ They have rides for little kids and then bigger and scarier rides for everyone else. Bumper cars, swings, an old-fashioned carousel, spinning things and rollercoasters and a vertical drop thingy and a lot more. You pay $13.99 for a wristband that gets you unlimited rides, which is such an excellent deal. There's really so much here to entertain everyone in your family!

The best part of visiting Traders Village is getting a funnel cake. I never leave without having one. The price went up and it got smaller but it was cooked fresh and it was delicious.

This is a fun stop if you enjoy perusing flea markets/swap meets. You can find almost anything here (tires, clothes, security vests, you name it LOL) but I will say the booths get a bit repetitive with the same toys or items. I wish there were more small businesses as opposed to mass marketed items. There was one small business that did crochet items which I adored. Traders Village is HUGE, it would probably take hours and hours to walk through the entire thing if it was at full capacity. They also have a variety of carnival rides people can go on and a plethora of food booths. The food is okay, nothing to phone home about and at times a BIT OVERPRICED ($10+ for a cup of elote?? get outta here!). It's a fun thing to go to with friends maybe once or twice but overall just okay!

This place was so sketchy and I have never been so uncomfortable. I seriously felt like I was walking around in Tijuana. I went ready to spend some money but the people were so rude and were very aggressively trying to sell me on their junk. Terrible waste of an afternoon.

The market is huge, but my truck was broken into while I was there. After paying to park, I would think security would be better. As I waited for police, another family came in because their car was broken into and I overheard a discussion about an assault. It's a nice market, but it seems the parking lot is a big security issue. The workers were apologetic but I feel like this is a norm here.