Herne Bay Pier

The walk along the sea is great even if the weather isn't that good. Nice restaurants along the way.

That was incredible!! Everything began with an easy car parking experience. The parking fee is quite high, costing 2.40 for an hour. Believe me, if you have kids, you'll need to pay for several hours. We ended up spending 5 hours there. It was lovely to sit by the water and enjoy the fresh air. The beach has some small stones, but we managed to find a sandy spot where the kids could build a castle. There are plenty of little shops nearby, offering traditional fish and chips, ice cream, and both hot and cold drinks. Arcades provide entertainment options. We had the chance to catch crabs from the sea, which was fantastic!! We paid £5 for a special crab net. They sell kits that include a net, bacon, and a bucket. I had never seen so many little boys and girls, as well as men and women, doing this on the pier. All the crabs were returned to the sea (people should take them back to the water from the beach). We were fortunate that the weather was very nice. On the pier, there were attractions for kids: soft play, jumping, and carousels. Toilets are available in the arcade building (inside), but there are no signs indicating that it's a toilet; we just asked the receptionist. Alternatively, you can use the toilets on the pier, but they are in poor condition and have a very unpleasant odor. Overall, it’s such an amazing place to spend a day out with kids.

Gorgeous place to visit.

Great place for refreshments and watching the world go by.

Nice old fashioned seaside pier

Lovely feel, little shops and plenty of food and drink outlets. Great venue for music.

IT IS A BEAUTIFUL LITTLE PIER WITH A MARKET AND EATERIES ALL ALONE IT. YOU HAVE TO SEE IT IF VISIT.. HERNE BAY IS WONDERFUL.. ONE OF THE MOST SCENIC PARTS OF THE EAST COAST OF KENT. RECOMMENDED TO ONE AND ALL..

Great fun

Nice spot to stroll the prom....

Beautiful place to speed time with family

Love the pier loads of shops, places to have a drink and able to catch crabs

Fab day out. Food fun and icecream

Visited Beer on the Pier. Good ales from Goody and real cider. Pier very busy and social distancing not ideal

Nice cafe at the end, toilets, fishing and few more things opened up.

Lovely promenade with good gardens and great place for music with bar...pier Lovely to walk down plenty to see

Great day out

Great for a walk food and drink

Great place to go on a grey day,arcade machines and crabbing

Great little pier for crabbing, good and kids amusements

Nice place 4 a day out with the fam

Lovely place and clean. Made a day of it with the kids

Nice pier, not the longest so easily traversable. Little shops along it as well as eateries and a little pub. Performance area.Kids attractions at the end of the pier. Good views from the end.

Herne bay is your quintessential Victorian seaside town. It is really clean hardly any litter. The seafront walk is lovely, so peaceful and quiet. The pier was a bit noisy for us - loud music for the funfair. There are pretty gardens and lots of history information about the area.

Great for crabbing.

Nice Pier for a few across the Thames

Nice pier mainly due to the classic carrosel at the end and the nice beach hut shops which make a welcome change to the usual amusement arcades you usually get on piers. Would love to have seen the original full length peir in all its glory at a half mile long...such a shame it's reduced to only a quarter the original lenght.

Great place especially when it is sunny

Really good experience and cool place to hangout especially in sunny day with family

Their ate no tickets it is free to enter

Great collection of idiosyncratic huts...small retail outlets..try Bier on the Pier..ask for a Goody ale.

Lovely friendly well run pier ,plenty of stalls to eat & drink some kiddies rides & if you want place to buy eco crabbing kits

Small pier with rides for small kids, places to eat and drink and some lovely retail outlets

Great place to meet other bikers but also great seafront. 2 good nic nac shop in high street

The grandkids absolutely love it here, the amusements, arcades, candy floss, hot donuts and fish and chips as well as a tribute band on the pier in the evening

very beautiful and quiet place! Love it ! ❤️

Herne Bay Pier is a fascinating example of the traditional British seaside experience, but with a unique, slightly bittersweet twist that sets it apart from its neighbors in Whitstable or Margate. Once the second-longest pier in the UK, it was famously severed by a storm in 1978. Today, it stands as a "pier of two halves," with the isolated pier head sitting a few hundred yards out at sea like a lonely island. Food: You’ll find the classics—fish and chips, candy floss, and donuts. There is also a very popular beer garden and food court area which often hosts live music during the summer weekends. Shopping: Small independent stalls sell local crafts, toys, and seaside souvenirs.

The best run Pier in Kent if not the UK WE LOVE IT

very nice, with great little shops and sometimes live music

VISIT DATE: SUN 26/10/2025 VISIT TIME: 12:00 - 13:00 Herne Bay Pier is a traditional seaside attraction, featuring a long promenade, huts along the enclosed, right-hand side housing stalls selling various trinkets and other lovely items, hot drinks and snacks. You can also get pizza, burgers, ice cream and even alcohol, with some establishments on the uncovered side. There is a section you can fish off (lines and buckets for crabbing are available to hire) and, at the end of the pier, there are a number of amusements, including a classic carousel. On the day we visited, as it was coming up to Halloween, there was a ghost hunt for children to participate in, which was to raise funds for the pier. For a small donation, you got a piece of paper ABs had to look round for the pictures of the ghosts which had been put up at various points along the pier. If you found them all, you got given a small gift bag containing sweets. This was great fun for my daughter and we successfully found all the ghosts, working as a team. Unfortunately, we chose to visit on an incredibly cold day, with rain, so I didn’t enjoy the experience as much as I would have on a sunny day, but it was still nice to visit and the cold obviously doesn’t bother some people as we even saw people taking a swim next to the pier! The pier is free to enter, is fully accessible, but the enclosed walkway can be a bit crowded at times. Parking available in a number of places nearby, but as this is a busy town, check in advance about when and where you can park as restrictions apply during the week. Be sure to check out the lovely bench just before the pier, which is a tribute to Andy Johnson, and also the fantastic “Telly-Go-Round”, to the right as you exit the pier.

Real winter feel but good as seaside postcard like pictures on each of the closed stalls