Address: Cornwall St, Plymouth, PL1 1PS, United Kingdom
Phone: +441752306551
Rating: 4.2
based on 202 reviews.
Market Atmosphere
Pros:
"Understated and underrated... try visiting. Reinvigorate those senses dulled by the mundane sanitised High Street stores and eateries."
"Real intimate chats with people who remember you and are pleased to see you."
"Nice to see the market so busy in mid November. Lots of hustle and bustle."
"Plymouth Market always has a friendly, community vibe."
"The atmosphere is friendly, the place is full of character, love the street food stalls."
"Nice little market with a warm, welcoming atmosphere."
"Very friendly, and helpful stallholders, very reasonable and cheap prices for decent products."
Cons:
"The streets are strewn with rubbish and the drains overflow with water when there are heavy rains due to not being maintained."
"No atmosphere and I felt uncomfortable waiting for someone to serve me."
"Although the market itself has security, it is set in a deprived run down part of the city centre where we witnessed a couple of fights between local youngsters which made us feel a bit uneasy."
"Feels a little unloved and I have had trouble finding vendors on a couple occasions."
"The market always feels a little cold and grubby."
"This place is very crowded and chaotic. Most of the items being sold are very low quality almost resembling the stuff you would expect to find at a car boot sale."
"Small market! is it worth the walk from the top of town? No it's not! The market is rubbish."
Product Variety and Quality
Pros:
"The stalls are packed with great local products."
"Wide range of products, great prices."
"You can try anything from all parts of the world."
"This market is a great asset to the city of Plymouth, with an excellent range of stalls, fresh produce sold and some good places to eat."
"Everything under one roof, including convenient cafes. Fresh fish, meat and vegetables, pies, pasties and just about anything you could want at quite reasonable prices."
"Really enjoyed wandering around the market. Have been really impressed by some of the food stalls."
"A great place to go for all your veg, meat and fish."
Cons:
"Some good traders some borderline trading low-end stuff."
"Quite a few stalls selling cheap tat - but there are some excellent food stalls selling some great fresh local produce."
"Walked around every stall and every aisle criss crossing several times. Virtually every stall holder was pre occupied with heads down sat on backside tapping either a laptop or mobile phone and even stuffing their faces with food, little interest or acknowledgement of customers."
"Shame, this market could be great but instead it's old and dated."
"Gone Dead. Stalls all closing and empty apart from a few dedicated ones."
"The market appears derelict and broken. As if the world moved on around it and left this particular one standing on the side."
"The only suggestion is avoid tea and buns. Given the choice of death or eating there again, start engraving my head stone now."
Accessibility and Facilities
Pros:
"From a disabled wheelchair users point of view it is easily accessible with good disabled parking to the rear of the market."
"It features seven 12 meter high and 46 meter long spans which supports not only a cavernous market hall without a single pillar, but also a window-filled curved roof inspired by the strength and shape of shells."
"Stalls are spread apart so easy access to them all."
"Plenty to see and buy in a spacious covered and newly refurbished space. Excellent disabled access for each of the 3 entrances / exits."
"Carpark. Wheelchair access. Disabled toilets."
"Clean, bright, warm and dry. Huge range of fantastic stalls selling all you could want and excels in fresh produce."
"Plymouth's undercover pannier market is well worth a wander around."
Cons:
"Contrary to what you would expect, there were no public toilets in the market. At least none that we could find."
"However the disabled toilets were designed by a non wheelchair user. It could not be worse designed if they tried. Getting in and out is really difficult."
"However the cafe upstairs has no access for a wheelchair user that I know of."
"It's quite tricky to navigate as a wheelchair user as the aisles are narrow and you can't see around corners too well."
"The only thing that spoiled it was the very rude cafe owner downstairs."
"This is a little mafia. Traders in the gang hold licenses."
"Known to those who know as Charity Row, this is the back end of town with only a McDonald's to entice you in."