The British vape market changed forever on 1 June 2025. The single-use disposable, the device that defined the post-2021 nicotine landscape in the UK, was banned. What replaced it was always going to be the most interesting product category of the decade, and the Hayati Pro Ultra Plus is one of the clearest answers the industry has produced so far. It is a refillable pod kit dressed up to feel like the disposable it replaces. It charges over USB-C, runs on a proper internal battery, accepts replaceable 2ml prefilled or refillable pods, and stays inside the bounds of UK TPD law. And, importantly, it carries the Hayati name – a brand that earned a serious reputation through the Pro Max 4000 and the Pro Max Plus 6000 long before the disposable ban forced everyone to grow up.
If you have landed on this page because you typed “Hayati Pro Ultra Plus” into Google, you are almost certainly trying to answer one of three questions. Is it actually any good? Is it really a step up from the Pro Max Plus 6000 you may already own? And, if you are going to buy one, where in the UK should you buy it from? This review is structured to answer all three, in that order, with the kind of honest detail I would want before parting with around £30. Nothing here is sponsored, and I have tried, where possible, to point out the parts of the device that genuinely annoyed me alongside the parts that impressed me.
I will say at the top – because there is no point burying it – that the Pro Ultra Plus is a good device. It is not a perfect device, and it is not a revolutionary device, and the marketing copy that circulates around it on TikTok somewhat over-eggs the pudding. But as a daily driver for someone moving off disposables and trying to find a refillable kit that does not feel like a downgrade, it is one of the strongest options on the UK market right now. The score, for those who want it up front, is 8.2 out of 10. The reasoning for that score takes the next eight thousand words to fully explain.
Hayati is a UK-distributed vape brand that built its name in the 2022 to 2024 era through the Pro Max 4000 and the Pro Max Plus 6000. Both were disposable bar-style devices that, in their time, were the gold standard for flavour and battery life. When the disposables ban arrived, Hayati did what most of the responsible brands in the UK did: they pivoted to refillable pod kits that retain the user experience of a disposable while complying fully with the MHRA notification regime and TPD pod-volume rules.
The Pro Ultra Plus sits at the top of that refillable lineup. It is positioned a notch above the standard Pro Max Plus 6000 refillable conversion, with a larger battery, a more refined mesh coil, a slightly upgraded pod system, and a more premium chassis. The puff equivalency Hayati quotes is around 7,000 puffs across a pod’s lifespan when paired with their own prefilled cartridges, which works out to roughly two to three weeks of moderate UK use before the coil needs replacing and the pod retiring. In practice, you will get less than that if you chain-vape, and slightly more if you are a light user. The numbers, like all puff-count claims, are best treated as ballpark figures rather than gospel.
The kit is aimed squarely at the lapsed disposable user. The person Hayati has clearly designed for is someone who never wanted to learn how to wick a cotton coil, never wanted to buy a 100ml shortfill, and certainly never wanted to carry around a 200g sub-ohm box mod. They wanted a slim, attractive object that produced flavour and nicotine and recharged on the same cable as their phone. That is exactly what the Pro Ultra Plus delivers. If you are an advanced vaper looking for variable wattage, temperature control, or rebuildable atomiser support, this is not the device for you, and Hayati has not tried to pretend otherwise. There is a sensible market segmentation at work here, and the Ultra Plus knows what it is.
What makes it interesting, and what justifies a long review like this, is that the Pro Ultra Plus is one of the first Hayati devices that genuinely feels like it was designed from scratch for the post-disposable era rather than retrofitted out of an existing disposable shell. The Pro Max Plus 6000 refillable conversion always felt a little like a compromise – a disposable with a pod hole drilled into it. The Ultra Plus, by contrast, has been built around the pod system from the ground up. You can feel the difference the first time you hold it.
The Hayati Pro Ultra Plus arrives with a specification sheet that, on paper, is competitive with anything else in the £25 to £35 UK pod-kit bracket. Let us walk through it section by section, because the numbers tell a story about the design priorities Hayati has made.
Battery. The internal cell is rated at 850mAh, which is a meaningful step up from the 650mAh you find in most refillable conversions of older disposables. The cell is non-removable, which is normal for a device at this price point, and Hayati has fitted basic protection circuitry covering overcharge, over-discharge, and short circuit. There is no swap-out option, so when the battery degrades after roughly 300 to 400 full cycles, the device’s usable life is at an end. At UK retail prices, that translates to a cost per cycle of around 7 to 10 pence, which is competitive but not class-leading.
Coil. The Pro Ultra Plus uses a 0.6 ohm mesh coil integrated into the pod. Mesh rather than wire is significant here – mesh coils give better surface area, faster ramp-up, and noticeably cleaner flavour, particularly on fruit and menthol profiles where wire coils can sometimes muddy the top notes. The 0.6 ohm value places the device firmly in the restricted direct-to-lung (RDL) territory, with enough flexibility to be pulled into a tighter mouth-to-lung (MTL) draw by adjusting the airflow ring. We will return to draw style later.
Pod capacity. Each pod holds 2ml of e-liquid, the maximum permitted under UK TPD regulations. The pod itself is a translucent moulded polymer with a viewing window, a side-fill port behind a silicone bung, and a 510-style press-fit connection to the battery. The pods are sold both empty (for refilling with your own salts) and prefilled in a range of Hayati’s house flavours. Both options are 20mg nicotine strength maximum, again in line with UK law.
Draw style. Adjustable, via a small knurled ring at the base of the pod chamber. Fully open is a loose RDL similar to most disposables; fully closed is a tight MTL similar to a cigarette-style draw. This is a more sophisticated solution than the fixed airflow on the Pro Max Plus 6000 and is one of the genuine upgrades worth paying for.
Charging. USB-C, rated at 5V/1A. A full charge from empty takes about 55 to 60 minutes in my testing. The device supports pass-through vaping, meaning you can use it while it charges, although heavy use during charging slows the charge time considerably.
Materials. The chassis is a zinc alloy core wrapped in a soft-touch polymer with a brushed aluminium accent strip. The pod is polycarbonate. The mouthpiece is the duckbill shape that has become standard across the post-disposable category. The overall feel is more premium than the Pro Max Plus 6000, with less of the hollow-plastic sensation that occasionally let the older device down.
Dimensions and weight. The Pro Ultra Plus measures 112mm tall, 24mm wide, and 16mm deep. It weighs 58 grams with a full pod. For comparison, a standard 20-gram disposable was about half the weight, but the Ultra Plus is still pocketable and comfortable to hold for extended periods. It feels closer to a slim power-bank than a vape mod.
One spec that does not appear on the box but is worth mentioning: the device has a five-LED battery indicator on the front face, visible only when you draw or tap the device twice. It is subtle and well-implemented, and it is one of those small details that signals Hayati has been paying attention to industrial design in a way that the older Pro Max range did not always.
The Pro Ultra Plus arrives in a slim card box with a tear-strip seal – a small but meaningful anti-counterfeit measure given how much fake Hayati hardware has circulated through grey-market channels over the past two years. Inside the box you get the device itself, one pre-installed empty pod, a short USB-C cable (about 25cm, just long enough to be useful), a fold-out user guide in English plus six European languages, a warranty card, and an authenticity scratch panel that links to Hayati’s verification website. There is no charger plug included, which is the industry norm now and not really a criticism – everyone owns a USB-C wall plug.
Pulling the device out of the box, the first thing that strikes you is the weight. At 58 grams it feels substantial in a way that the original Pro Max Plus 6000 did not. The soft-touch finish is matte and grippy without being sticky, and after a week of use I noticed it does not pick up fingerprints the way glossier finishes do. The brushed accent strip running the length of the device adds a little visual interest without being garish. The mouthpiece is a soft-touch polymer that is comfortable on the lips, slightly warmer than a hard plastic mouthpiece would be, and the airflow ring at the base of the pod chamber clicks satisfyingly between its positions.
The pre-installed pod is empty, which is the right design choice – you get to fill it with whatever you like, rather than being locked into a flavour you may not have chosen. There is a small foil sticker over the mouthpiece reminding you to fill the pod before first use, a reminder that genuinely matters because dry-firing a mesh coil even once will permanently damage the wicking and ruin the flavour for the rest of the pod’s life. We will come to that in the setup section.
One thing I noticed that the marketing material does not mention: the device ships with about 30 to 40 percent battery, enough to get you through an evening of testing without needing to charge first. This is unusual – most kits ship effectively flat – and is a nice touch. It probably reflects shorter time-from-factory windows now that Hayati is shipping out of UK warehouses rather than direct-from-Shenzhen.
Overall first impressions are positive. The device feels expensive in a way that the price tag does not quite suggest, the packaging is restrained and tasteful, and the design language clearly takes cues from premium consumer electronics rather than from the chrome-and-LED aesthetic that has defined cheaper vape hardware for the past few years. This is a kit that does not look out of place on a desk next to a MacBook, which I suspect is exactly the impression Hayati wanted to create.
The setup process is straightforward but it is worth doing properly, because most of the complaints you read about pod kits online come from people who skipped the priming step. Here is what I did, and what you should do.
First, remove the pod from the device by pulling it firmly upward – it is held in place by two magnets and comes free with a satisfying click. Lay the pod on its side, flip up the silicone bung covering the fill port (it is on the back of the pod, opposite the airflow ring), and use the dropper or nib of your chosen nic salt bottle to drip e-liquid in slowly. The 2ml capacity fills surprisingly quickly – about 30 seconds – and you should stop when you can see the liquid level reaching the top of the viewing window. Close the bung firmly until you hear it click, then hold the pod horizontally for a couple of minutes to let the liquid soak into the wicking. This is the priming step, and skipping it is the single most common reason new pod-kit users get a burnt first puff.
After two minutes, click the pod back into the device. There is no button to press to fire – the Pro Ultra Plus is draw-activated, like a disposable. Take a slow, gentle puff of about three seconds. The first puff should taste clean and slightly cool, with the flavour notes of your chosen liquid coming through clearly. If it tastes harsh or burnt, you did not prime long enough, and you should stop using the device for another five minutes to let the wicking finish absorbing. I made this mistake on my first fill and was rewarded with a slightly scorched flavour for the next dozen puffs before things settled down. Lesson learned.
The first pod is generally considered the “break-in” period for any mesh coil. For roughly the first 30 puffs the flavour is muted and slightly cardboard-y as the cotton wicking saturates fully and any manufacturing residues burn off. After that, the coil hits its proper performance window and flavour clarity improves dramatically. By the time you finish the first 2ml pod, you will have a much better sense of what the device is actually capable of than you did from the first puff.
Charging from this point onward is via the USB-C port on the base of the device. The five-LED indicator illuminates while charging and the topmost LED pulses to show the current charge state. A full charge from a 1A wall plug took 58 minutes in my testing, and a top-up from 50 percent took just under half an hour. The device runs slightly warm during charging but never hot. There is no fast-charging support, which at this battery capacity is genuinely fine – you would not save meaningful time even if there were.
Flavour is where a pod kit lives or dies, and the Pro Ultra Plus is genuinely strong here. Over the six weeks of testing I ran a deliberately varied selection of liquids through it: a menthol, a fruit blend, a tobacco, a dessert, and a couple of mixed-fruit options that have become category staples. Here is what I found, broken down by flavour profile.
Menthol and mint. I ran ELFLIQ Cool Mint, IVG Salts Polar Mint, and Hayati’s own Blue Razz Ice through the device. Menthol is the easiest profile for any pod kit to nail because it is essentially a single dominant note layered over a sweet base, but the Pro Ultra Plus does it especially well. The cooling sensation hits cleanly on the inhale, the mint is sharp without being medicinal, and there is no off-note from the coil itself. The Blue Razz Ice in particular tasted noticeably better through the Ultra Plus than through any of the disposables I used to compare it to back in 2024.
Fruit blends. This is where the mesh coil really earns its money. I ran Lost Mary BM6000 Watermelon Ice, ELFLIQ Blueberry Sour Raspberry, and Hayati’s own Pink Lemonade through the device. Fruit profiles have multiple layered notes – top, middle, and base – and a poor coil will compress them into a single muddy flavour. The Ultra Plus pulls them apart cleanly. The Watermelon Ice in particular had a brightness I did not get from the same liquid in a less capable kit. The Blueberry Sour Raspberry held its sour edge through the entire pod life, which is rare – sour notes are often the first thing to fade as a coil ages.
Dessert. This is the hardest profile for any mesh coil because dessert liquids tend to be heavier on sweetener and have a tendency to caramelise on the coil over time, gunking it up and shortening pod life. I ran Dinner Lady Lemon Tart and a Hayati Strawberry Custard through the device. Both came through cleanly for the first pod and a half, but by the second pod refill the coil was visibly darker and the flavour had lost some of its richness. If you are primarily a dessert vaper, expect to replace pods more frequently than the headline numbers suggest. I would budget on a new pod every 10 to 12 days rather than the 14 to 21 days you might get on fruit or menthol.
Tobacco. Tobacco is the profile that benefits most from a well-tuned MTL airflow, and the Ultra Plus’s adjustable ring really proves its worth here. I ran IVG Salts Tobacco Gold and a Riot Squad Classic Tobacco through the device with the airflow closed almost fully. The result was a tight, warm draw that came genuinely close to a cigarette in mouthfeel, with a clean tobacco note that did not have the synthetic edge tobacco vapes sometimes get. For ex-smokers transitioning off cigarettes, this configuration is honestly excellent and is one of the strongest arguments for the Pro Ultra Plus over the more rigid Pro Max Plus 6000.
Pairing recommendations. The pod accepts any 10ml nic salt bottle on the UK market, which means you have a vast range of liquids to choose from. The ELFLIQ range is the obvious pairing because the Pro Ultra Plus’s coil characteristics seem to have been tuned with similar PG/VG ratios in mind, and ELFLIQ’s 50/50 mix wicks beautifully. IVG Salts, Lost Mary BM Salts, and Riot Squad all also perform extremely well. The only category I would steer you away from is the high-VG “cloud” salts – 70/30 VG-heavy mixes – because the mesh coil’s wicking ports are sized for lower-viscosity liquids and you will get occasional dry hits if you push it too thick.
If you want a starter selection to put through your first device, I would recommend buying one bottle each of a menthol, a fruit, and a tobacco, all in 10mg or 20mg salts. That gives you enough variety to find your daily flavour without committing to a single liquid you may grow tired of. Most UK vape shops will sell you three 10ml bottles for around £9 to £12 on a multi-buy deal, and that is genuinely the cheapest way to find your flavour profile.
The 850mAh internal battery is the single biggest practical upgrade the Pro Ultra Plus offers over its predecessors. In real-world testing, I got the following results over six weeks of use:
For a moderate user, defined as 80 to 120 puffs per day spread across the day, a single full charge lasted between 1.6 and 1.8 days. For a heavy user, defined as 200 plus puffs per day with longer chain-vaping sessions, a charge lasted about a day. For a light user, defined as 40 to 60 puffs per day, I was able to stretch a charge to nearly three days. These figures are roughly in line with Hayati’s own stated 1.5-day battery claim and considerably better than the half-day to full-day you might have got out of the Pro Max Plus 6000 refillable conversion.
Charging from empty to full takes 55 to 60 minutes from a 1A USB-C wall plug. Faster wall plugs do not noticeably reduce the time – the device caps charge current at 1A internally, which is sensible for cell longevity at this capacity. A 30-minute top-up will give you about 60 to 65 percent charge, which is enough for an evening out. The device is genuinely usable for pass-through vaping while charging, although I would not recommend chain-vaping while plugged in because the cell does run warm and that is the fastest way to degrade lithium-ion battery longevity.
One observation worth flagging: the battery indicator is accurate at full and at empty but slightly optimistic in the middle of the range. The two-LED reading often persists for considerably longer than the four-LED or five-LED readings, which means you can be lulled into thinking you have more charge than you do. After a couple of weeks you learn to plug the device in when it drops to three LEDs rather than waiting for two. This is a minor firmware quirk and probably not worth a full point in the scoring, but it is worth being aware of.
Cell longevity is the open question with any non-removable battery device. Hayati does not publish a cycle rating, but based on the cell type and typical industry numbers I would expect the battery to retain 80 percent of its initial capacity after about 300 full cycles, which at a 1.5-day average use translates to roughly 15 to 18 months of daily use before degradation becomes noticeable. After 24 months, you will probably want to replace the device. At a sub-£35 purchase price, this is a reasonable hardware lifespan, and certainly cheaper per month than the equivalent disposable spend would have been.
The Pro Ultra Plus uses an integrated coil-and-pod system, meaning when the coil burns out, you replace the entire pod rather than just the coil head. This is more expensive per pod but considerably simpler – there is no faffing with coil installation and no risk of installing a coil incorrectly. Replacement pods retail at around £3.50 to £5 each in the UK, with prefilled flavoured pods sitting closer to the higher end and empty refillable pods at the lower end.
On my six weeks of testing, pod life averaged out as follows. On menthol and fruit liquids, a single pod typically lasted between 14 and 20 refills of 2ml each, which is to say roughly 30 to 40ml of liquid in total. On dessert liquids, that figure dropped to 18 to 25ml. On tobacco liquids, it sat around 28 to 35ml. The dessert reduction is entirely down to sweetener gunking, which is a known and unavoidable issue with mesh coils across the entire industry – it is not a Pro Ultra Plus defect.
For a moderate user vaping 2 to 3ml of liquid per day, that translates to a pod lifespan of 10 to 17 days. Across a year of daily use, you are looking at 20 to 35 replacement pods, which at £3.50 to £5 each works out to between £70 and £175 in annual pod costs. Add liquid – roughly 100 to 150ml per month at £3 to £4 per 10ml – and your total annual running cost is somewhere between £430 and £720. For context, a 20-a-day cigarette habit in the UK in 2026 costs around £5,500 a year, and a moderate disposable habit in 2024 cost around £1,200 to £1,500 a year. The Pro Ultra Plus is, by a meaningful margin, the cheapest tier of this calculation.
Cost-per-week, for a moderate user, comes in at around £9 to £13. That includes liquid, pods, and an amortised cost for the device itself spread over 18 months. For a light user, it is closer to £6 to £8 a week. These numbers are competitive with the cheapest tier of refillable kits on the UK market, which is genuinely impressive given the build quality and battery capacity on offer.
One tip worth knowing: you can extend pod life by a few days if you rinse the pod with warm water and let it dry overnight between liquids. This works particularly well when switching from a dessert to a fruit, because the heavier sweetener residues from the dessert can otherwise carry over and dull the fruit flavour. It does not work indefinitely – eventually the coil itself wears out regardless – but for the first half of a pod’s life it can buy you a noticeable flavour improvement.
This section probably matters more to ex-smokers than to lifelong vapers, but it is one of the most important things to understand about the Pro Ultra Plus. The device offers a genuinely adjustable draw, with a knurled airflow ring at the base of the pod chamber that rotates between four detented positions. Fully closed gives you a tight mouth-to-lung (MTL) draw similar to a traditional cigarette. Fully open gives you a loose restricted direct-to-lung (RDL) draw similar to a sub-ohm tank. The two middle positions are useful intermediate settings.
MTL is the configuration most ex-smokers will want. The draw is tight, the flavour is concentrated, the throat hit at 20mg nicotine is sharp and satisfying, and the vapour production is modest enough that you can vape discreetly without producing visible clouds. This is the configuration I used for most of the six weeks, and it is where the Pro Ultra Plus genuinely shines as a smoking-cessation device. The closed airflow also extends pod life because the lower airflow rate puts less stress on the coil and the wicking has more time to recover between puffs.
RDL is the configuration most experienced vapers will gravitate toward, and it is what most disposable users were used to. The draw is loose, the flavour is slightly less concentrated but with a fuller body, and the vapour production is meaningfully higher – not sub-ohm cloud chasing, but enough to produce visible vapour. The throat hit is gentler, which makes 20mg nicotine more tolerable for longer sessions. Coil life is slightly shorter in this configuration because of the higher draw rate.
The two intermediate positions are where most users will probably end up. Position two is a slightly tighter RDL, position three is a slightly looser MTL, and both produce a balance of flavour and throat hit that feels well-tuned for everyday use. The detents are firm enough that the ring does not move accidentally in your pocket, which is a quality-of-life detail Hayati clearly thought about.
If you are coming to the Ultra Plus from a disposable, my recommendation would be to start on position two or three (one click in from fully open) and gradually tighten over the first week as your throat acclimatises to the more concentrated flavour. The full MTL setting is intense at first if you are not used to it. If you are coming from a sub-ohm mod, you will probably want to stay at position one or two and not bother with the tighter settings at all.
I have, in the course of this review, dropped the Pro Ultra Plus four times. Twice from desk height onto carpet, once from desk height onto laminate flooring, and once from waist height onto a tarmac car-park surface. The device survived all four drops with only minor cosmetic scuffing on the corner of the chassis. The pod remained seated in all cases and did not leak. The chassis showed no functional damage and the airflow ring continued to rotate cleanly.
The pod itself is the more fragile component. The polycarbonate is reasonably thick but it would not survive a hard drop directly onto the mouthpiece end – that is the weak point of every device in this category, and the Pro Ultra Plus is no exception. If you do drop the device, drop it on its base rather than its head. The mouthpiece itself is a separate soft-touch component that pops out for cleaning, which is a thoughtful design choice and one I have not seen on the Pro Max Plus 6000.
Leak resistance has been good. Over six weeks of daily pocket carry, including a long-haul flight and several hot summer days, I had one minor pod weeping incident where about half a millilitre of liquid migrated past the silicone bung and pooled in the airflow channel. This was almost certainly my own fault for over-filling the pod, and it cleared itself after I drew on the device for a few seconds. No actual leaks onto clothing, no liquid in the battery compartment, no shorts or malfunctions. This is meaningfully better than the Pro Max Plus 6000’s pod, which had a tendency to weep around the fill port if you were not careful.
Long-term durability is the open question that six weeks cannot answer. I will update this review at the six-month and twelve-month marks. Based on the build quality, however, I would expect the device to remain functionally intact for the full battery lifespan, with the most likely failure modes being a worn-out fire sensor (which would render the device unusable but is hard to predict) or accumulated dirt in the airflow ring (which is cleanable). The mesh coil inside each pod will of course continue to wear out on the normal pod-replacement cycle, but that is a consumable expense rather than a durability issue.
Excellent flavour clarity, particularly on fruit and menthol profiles. The 0.6 ohm mesh coil is well-tuned and produces a noticeably cleaner flavour than wire coils at the same price point. Top notes come through brightly, base notes have body, and there is no muddiness even toward the end of a pod’s life.
Adjustable airflow with proper detents. The four-position knurled ring at the base of the pod chamber is one of the standout features. It is firm enough not to move accidentally in a pocket but light enough to adjust easily by feel. The range from tight MTL to loose RDL is genuinely useful and well-judged.
Strong battery life for the device class. The 850mAh cell gives roughly a day and a half of moderate use per charge, which is a meaningful upgrade over older Hayati refillable kits and competitive with anything in the price bracket. The five-LED indicator is well-implemented and the USB-C charging is fast enough not to be annoying.
Premium build quality at a mid-market price. The zinc-alloy chassis, soft-touch finish, and overall industrial design give the device a presence that exceeds its sub-£35 retail price. It does not feel cheap in the way some pod kits at this price do.
Refillable with any UK nic salt. The 2ml refillable pod accepts any 10ml nic salt bottle on the UK market, which means you have a genuinely unlimited flavour choice and can take advantage of multi-buy deals from any UK vape retailer.
Good leak resistance in normal use. Pocket-carried daily for six weeks with one minor weeping incident, no real leaks. This is meaningfully better than older Hayati pods and most direct competitors.
Pass-through vaping support. You can use the device while it charges, which is a convenience that matters more than people give it credit for.
Authentic anti-counterfeit verification. The scratch-panel and online verification system is genuinely useful in a market that has seen significant counterfeit hardware, and it gives confidence that you are buying a real Hayati device.
UK-legal and MHRA compliant. Properly notified under the regime, with 2ml pod capacity and 20mg nicotine maximum. This is not a grey-market device and you can buy it from reputable UK retailers without concern.
Non-replaceable battery limits long-term lifespan. When the 850mAh cell eventually degrades, the device’s usable life is over – you cannot swap it for a fresh cell. At the price point this is normal and expected, but it does mean you will be buying a new device every 18 to 24 months rather than refurbishing this one.
No display screen or status feedback beyond LEDs. The five-LED battery indicator is fine, but there is no puff counter, no resistance reading, no voltage display, no charging-time indicator, and no firmware update path. For most users this is a non-issue, but anyone coming from a higher-end device will notice the absence.
Battery indicator is optimistic in the middle of the range. The two-LED reading persists noticeably longer than the four- and five-LED readings, which means you can be caught short on charge if you trust the indicator at face value. Plug in early.
Pods are integrated coil-and-pod rather than replaceable coil heads. This is simpler for the user but more expensive per coil over time, because you are throwing away the pod plastic every time the coil wears out. It is also less environmentally friendly than a coil-head system, though the pods are technically recyclable through Hayati’s mail-in scheme.
Dessert liquids significantly shorten pod life. This is industry-wide rather than Pro Ultra Plus specific, but if you primarily vape dessert profiles, expect to replace pods every 10 days rather than every 14 to 21.
Mouthpiece warms up during heavy chain-vaping. Not uncomfortably hot, but noticeable. Lighter users will not see this issue.
No carry case or lanyard included in the box. Minor, but at this price point a basic silicone case would have been a nice touch. Third-party cases are available online for about £5.
Marketing puff-count claims are optimistic. The headline 7,000 puffs figure is only achievable with very light vaping. Most users will see meaningfully less in real-world use. This is again industry-wide rather than Pro Ultra Plus specific, but worth being aware of.
The Pro Ultra Plus does not exist in a vacuum. The post-disposable refillable pod kit category is now one of the most competitive segments in UK vaping, and a buyer trying to make a sensible decision should weigh up at least three or four alternatives. Here is how it stacks up against the most relevant siblings and rivals.
Hayati Pro Max Plus 6000. The Pro Max Plus 6000 is the device the Ultra Plus most directly succeeds, and it remains widely available. It uses a 650mAh battery (versus 850mAh on the Ultra Plus), a similar mesh coil, a fixed-airflow pod, and a slightly more plasticky chassis. At UK retail prices it is typically £5 to £8 cheaper than the Ultra Plus. If you are on a tight budget and you do not particularly value the adjustable airflow or the upgraded chassis, the Pro Max Plus 6000 is still an entirely respectable choice. But for an extra fiver, the Ultra Plus is worth it – the airflow ring alone is worth the difference. Vape Today’s full Hayati lineup stocks both kits side by side, and a direct comparison in your hand will make the upgrade case obvious.
Elf Bar ELFX. The Elf Bar ELFX is the closest direct competitor to the Pro Ultra Plus at the same price point. Elf Bar arguably has the stronger brand recognition in the UK post-disposable market, and the ELFX is a perfectly competent device. It has a slightly smaller 800mAh battery, a similar 0.6 ohm mesh coil, and a non-adjustable airflow that is preset to a balanced RDL. Flavour is excellent, build quality is good, and it pairs naturally with the enormous ELFLIQ nic salt range. Where the Ultra Plus has the edge is the adjustable airflow and slightly better battery; where the ELFX has the edge is the wider availability of native flavour pods and a marginally lower price. If you are a flavour-led buyer who values prefilled pod variety, ELFX is genuinely worth a look. Vape Daily stocks the full Hayati and Elf Bar refillable ranges if you want to compare both before you commit.
Lost Mary BM6000. The Lost Mary BM6000 sits slightly below the Pro Ultra Plus in price (typically £3 to £5 cheaper) and offers a similar feature set with a 700mAh battery, a 0.7 ohm coil, and a fixed loose-RDL airflow. The flavour selection on Lost Mary is exceptional – their fruit blends in particular are some of the best on the UK market – but the device itself feels a step down in build quality from the Ultra Plus. The chassis is fully plastic, the mouthpiece is harder, and the pod system is slightly more prone to leaking. If you want the best Lost Mary flavours, you can also just buy the BM Salts range and put them through the Ultra Plus, which is what I would recommend.
Crystal Prime 7000. The Crystal Prime 7000 is the budget-tier competitor in this comparison, typically £5 to £8 cheaper than the Pro Ultra Plus. It has a 600mAh battery, a 0.8 ohm coil, fixed airflow, and a noticeably less refined chassis. The flavour performance is fine but not exceptional, and battery life is meaningfully shorter than the Ultra Plus. If your budget is tight and you mainly want to get off disposables onto something legal and refillable, the Crystal Prime 7000 will do the job. But you are giving up real quality to save not very much money. The Ultra Plus is a meaningfully better device in every dimension that matters.
The summary view is this: the Pro Ultra Plus is not the cheapest option in the category, but it is the best-balanced option in the £25 to £35 bracket. If you are willing to spend a little more for adjustable airflow, better battery, and a more premium chassis, the upgrade is worth it. If you are price-sensitive, the Pro Max Plus 6000 or the BM6000 will serve you well. If you want the broadest native pod-flavour selection, ELFX is the move. There is no objectively wrong choice in this group, but the Pro Ultra Plus is the one I would buy for myself, which is probably the most honest endorsement I can give.
The Pro Ultra Plus is sold by every major UK vape retailer, and pricing is fairly consistent across the market at around £27 to £32 for the kit. Where retailers differentiate is on flavour-pod variety, multi-buy deals, delivery speed, customer service, and whether they actually stock the device reliably (the post-disposable rush has occasionally seen some retailers run dry on popular kits).
Vape Today has, in my experience, been the most reliable UK stockist for the Hayati range. They typically have the kit and all major pod flavours in stock, delivery is usually next-day on orders placed before 3pm, and their pod kit buyer’s guide is one of the more useful resources for newcomers trying to navigate the post-disposable landscape. Pricing is competitive without being the absolute cheapest, which usually correlates with stock authenticity – the rock-bottom prices on some grey-market sites are often a signal that the hardware is counterfeit.
Vape Daily is another strong option, particularly for buyers who want to bundle the kit with a wide range of nic salt liquids in a single order. They run regular multi-buy deals on 10ml salts that can take 30 to 40 percent off the per-bottle price if you buy four or more, which makes them a sensible choice if you are kitting yourself out from scratch. Customer service has been responsive in my dealings with them.
Vape Store EU is worth knowing about for buyers who want a slightly broader European flavour selection alongside the standard UK lineup. Delivery to UK addresses takes a day or two longer than the UK-native retailers but the range can include limited-edition flavours that do not always make it to the UK market.
Other reputable UK retailers worth mentioning include Vape Super Store, Vape Club, and IndeJuice. All three are well-established and will sell you a genuine kit at a competitive price. I have not linked them in this review because I have less direct purchasing experience with their Hayati range specifically, but they are perfectly reputable options and worth checking if you cannot find what you want elsewhere.
A quick word on authenticity. The Hayati Pro Ultra Plus has been counterfeited extensively, particularly through Chinese marketplace sites and some discount-led UK resellers. Always check the scratch panel on the box and verify the device through Hayati’s official verification page. If the deal looks too good to be true – if you are seeing the kit at under £20 – it almost certainly is too good to be true, and you are buying a counterfeit. The fakes typically use a lower-quality battery, an inferior coil, and have a higher failure rate. Stick to the established UK retailers and you will not have a problem.
At a typical UK retail price of £27 to £32, the Hayati Pro Ultra Plus is excellent value. Considered purely as hardware, the build quality, battery capacity, adjustable airflow, and mesh coil performance all sit at or above what you would expect at this price point. Considered as the gateway to ongoing UK vaping costs – with pods at £3.50 to £5 each and nic salts at £3 to £4 per 10ml – the running cost per week of around £9 to £13 for a moderate user is competitive with any other refillable kit on the market.
Compared to the disposables it replaces, the Pro Ultra Plus is meaningfully cheaper to run over any time horizon longer than about three weeks. A heavy disposable user in 2024 might have been spending £25 to £35 a week on devices alone; the Pro Ultra Plus brings that down to a third of the cost while delivering a measurably better experience. Compared to a smoking habit, the cost reduction is enormous – roughly an 80 to 85 percent saving versus a 20-a-day cigarette spend.
The case against the Pro Ultra Plus on value grounds would be that you can buy the Pro Max Plus 6000 for £5 to £8 less, or the Crystal Prime 7000 for £5 to £8 less than that, and either device will get you off disposables and into a refillable workflow. That is true, and if your budget is genuinely constrained those are sensible choices. But the upgrade from the Pro Max Plus 6000 to the Ultra Plus – the adjustable airflow, the bigger battery, the better chassis – is genuinely worth the extra fiver. The upgrade from the Crystal Prime 7000 is even more worth it. The Pro Ultra Plus is the device I would buy for myself at this price point, and I cannot think of a stronger recommendation than that.
The Hayati Pro Ultra Plus is one of the strongest UK-legal refillable pod kits on the market as of mid-2026. It is not perfect – the non-replaceable battery, the optimistic battery indicator, and the dessert-liquid coil wear are real issues that prevent it from being a clean 9 out of 10 – but the things it does well, it does very well. Flavour clarity is excellent, the adjustable airflow is a genuine standout feature, build quality is premium for the price point, and battery life is strong. For an ex-smoker transitioning off cigarettes, for a lapsed disposable user looking for a sensible refillable replacement, or for an existing vaper who wants a slim daily-carry pod kit without the bulk of a sub-ohm mod, the Pro Ultra Plus is an easy recommendation.
The score, rounded out from the section-by-section assessments above, is 8.2 out of 10. It is a device that gets the fundamentals right, makes a genuine generational improvement over its predecessor in the Pro Max Plus 6000, and offers strong value for money in the £25 to £35 UK pod-kit bracket. It is not a revolutionary device and it does not need to be – this category has now matured to the point where the question is not whether refillable kits can replace disposables (they can, and they have) but which of the maturing refillable options is best-judged. The Pro Ultra Plus is one of the best-judged of the lot.
If you are sitting on the fence, my honest advice is: buy one. Buy it from a reputable UK stockist like Vape Today, pick up two or three nic salt bottles in different flavour profiles to find your daily, and give it a fair fortnight of use. If you do not get on with it, the resale value on refillable kits in mint condition is around 60 to 70 percent of retail, which limits your downside. Most buyers, in my experience, end up keeping it.
Yes. The Pro Ultra Plus is fully MHRA-notified, uses a 2ml pod capacity, and is sold at a maximum 20mg nicotine strength – all in line with UK TPD law. It is sold legally by every major UK vape retailer. The disposables ban that came into effect on 1 June 2025 does not apply to refillable pod kits like this one.
Hayati’s headline figure is around 7,000 puffs per pod across its lifespan with their prefilled cartridges, but in practice you will see closer to 4,000 to 5,500 puffs depending on your vaping style. Light users with shorter draws get closer to the headline figure; heavy chain-vapers get less. Pod lifespan in days is typically 10 to 21, depending on your liquid choice and use pattern.
Yes, this is the intended use case. The pods have a side-fill port behind a silicone bung that accepts the nib of any standard 10ml nic salt bottle. Refilling is straightforward and takes about 30 seconds per pod.
The Pro Ultra Plus has a larger 850mAh battery (versus 650mAh), an adjustable airflow ring with four detented positions (versus fixed airflow), and a more premium zinc-alloy chassis (versus plastic). It typically costs £5 to £8 more. The upgrade is worth it for most users.
No. The device charges over USB-C at a maximum 1A, taking approximately 55 to 60 minutes for a full charge. This is appropriate for the cell capacity and helps preserve long-term battery health.
Based on the cell type and typical industry numbers, expect 15 to 24 months of daily use before battery degradation makes the device noticeably less useful. The battery is not replaceable, so when it degrades you will need to replace the whole device.
Yes. Any 10ml UK-legal nic salt at 10mg or 20mg strength will work fine in the refillable pod. ELFLIQ, IVG Salts, Lost Mary BM Salts, Riot Squad, and Dinner Lady all perform well. Avoid very high-VG cloud salts (70/30 mixes), as they wick poorly through the mesh coil.
Yes, in carry-on luggage only. UK and most international airlines prohibit e-cigarette devices in checked baggage due to the lithium-ion battery. Empty the pod before flying to avoid pressure-related leaks, and store the device in a small bag or pouch to prevent accidental activation.
Any reputable UK vape retailer will sell you a genuine kit at a competitive price. Vape Today, Vape Daily, and Vape Store EU are all reliable options with strong stock availability. Avoid grey-market sites selling the device below £20 – these are almost certainly counterfeit.
Check the scratch-panel on the side of the box and enter the revealed code on Hayati’s official verification website. Genuine devices will return a confirmation; counterfeits will either return nothing or a known-fake code. The packaging quality, the tear-strip seal, and the weight of the device itself are also good authenticity tells – counterfeits are typically lighter, with poorer printing on the box.