Herne Bay advice please!

[ifherbumwereabungalow]

Due to a whole host of reasons me and DH are looking to sell our house on the Surrey/Hampshire border and move to Herne Bay. This would be a completely new area for us and our two DCs and because we have no family in that part of the world we are completely baffled as to which areas/roads/estates are good or bad. The schools all look like they have good or outstanding ratings so they are less of an issue, what we would really like to know is the stuff that an estate agent/seller is NOT going to tell us. At the moment our top two properties are in Brunswick Square and Walcot Place. If anyone has any local knowledge I would be eternally grateful for advice about how rough these areas might be and where you would recommend we base our search.
Many thanks in advance.

Rent an Air BnB for a few weekends and half term to get to know it morning, noon and night. I passed through once on a hot summers day and the beach was mobbed - not sure if they were locals or day trippers like me. So might we worth considering where might get traffic on busy summer week-ends.

We go to Herne Bay a lot, its not that busy this year considering how hot its been, though we tend to walk the beach areas late afternoon at low tide.
The Hamptons is where we would buy if we were to move there but Beltinge and Tankerton close 2nd and 3rd.

For me it would have to be in walking distance to the beach. as your family grow your children need to be able to get into town/beach on foot not by mums taxi everywhere.

I will know the area has trendified greatly but when I was a student living in Whitstable many years ago, the local teens used to break the window of the amusement arcade (not the nice holiday type) regularly for entertainment as it was so dull there Whitstable was considered exciting compared to Herne Bay. I am sure it's lovely now.

Thanks for all the comments, I have also been recommended the Hampton end and also Beltinge (is it pronounced Bell-tinge or Bell-ting?) one of the properties is in amongst the lovely 3 storey terraces a few rows back from the beach but there seems to be quite a bit of anti-social behaviour around that way, does anyone know if this is to a concerning level or just your average small town yobbery?