Antrim Car Boot Sale (Junction One/ Enkalon Industrial Estate)

Mistral001

Does anybody know if this car boot sale is open again after Covid close-down?

Mistral001

I am suffering from car boot sale withdrawal symptoms now that the Ballymena car boot sale is not open!  Anybody know about the status of the Antrim one.

Mistral001

I was past the Antrim car boot site just before Christmas.  It now seems to be used as a Covid testing centre, so no car boot sale I am afraid.

Mistral001

Does anybody know whether the Covid drive in testing centre at Antrim has closed yet and if it has, has the car boot sale that used to be on the site opened up again.  

Mistral001

Has the car boot sale come back?  

Mistral001

An update, if anybody is interested.  I was driving past where the Antrm car boot sale used to be before Covid and now see that the Covid drive-in testing centre has been removed and the entrances blocked up with rubble, so it looks like no car boot car sale in the near future.

On a more positive note, the Ballymena car boot sale seems to be flourishing after Covid and its much criticised move to the Ballymoney Road car park.  I visited it on Saturday to find that there were almost same number of stalls as there were when it was at the leisure centre/cinema site.  Ballymoney Road site is far from perfect, but at least it is surviving.

Mistral001

Update.  The Antrim Car Boot sale is now open, but at the old site at Dunsilly instead of the site it was at before it closed due to Covid.  I was at it yesterday where there were about 50-60 pitches.  This is a lot fewer than the 150 pitches which you regularily got before Covid, but at least the car boot sale has started again. 

For those who have not been there before, you the will find it if you take the turn off to Antrim at the M2 Dunsilly roundabout.   It is a couple of hundred yards on the left near the Dunsilly Hotel.