Hayati Prefilled Pods & Refills

What "prefilled pods and refills" means at Hayati

This hub gathers every way of putting fresh liquid into a Hayati device that does not involve buying another battery. Around two hundred listings sit here, and they split into two quite different ideas that are worth separating before anything else.

The first is the prefilled refill pod: a sealed cartridge that arrives full, containing its own coil and its own liquid, which you fit and vape until it is done. The second is the bottled refill: liquid in a bottle that you pour into a refillable pod yourself. Both are "refills" in the sense that both put liquid back into a device you already own, but the experience, the cost and the amount of involvement are completely different.

Almost everything on this page is the first kind. Hayati's catalogue is overwhelmingly prefilled, and the bottled route exists mainly to serve the refillable Quokka devices. This page covers both properly, because choosing between them is the decision that determines what your vaping actually costs.

Strictly for adults 18 and over. These products contain nicotine, which is addictive. Every order is age-verified.

The refill inside the pod

The thing that confuses most buyers about high-capacity Hayati pods is that the number on the box is not the size of the tank. A Pro Ultra Plus pod says 22ml, but nothing inside it holds 22ml. That figure is the total across three separate vessels, and understanding the arrangement explains most of how the product behaves.

The working chamber

Directly above the mesh coil sits a 2ml chamber. That is the only part of the pod connected to the airway, the only part the wick draws from, and the only part the coil ever sees. It is exactly the same size as the tank on any ordinary UK pod device.

The sealed refill containers

Around and above the chamber sit the reserves. On a Pro Ultra Plus that is two sealed 10ml containers; on a Pro Max Plus or Rubik pod there is a single reserve holding the balance of the 12ml. These are not open to the air path. They are storage, and their only job is to release liquid downwards into the chamber as it empties.

The auto-fill mechanism

Transfer is passive. As you vape, the chamber level drops, and a pressure-regulated valve allows liquid through from the reserve to bring it back up. It is gravity-assisted, driven by the pressure differential that consuming liquid creates. There is no pump, no button, nothing to operate and nothing to prime manually. A faint click or gurgle from the pod when a transfer happens is the valve working normally.

What that means day to day:

• Store and use it upright. Gravity is doing half the work. A device left on its side overnight will usually over-fill the chamber and give you a wet first draw.
• Let a new pod settle. Five minutes standing upright after fitting, then two or three gentle priming puffs, before you vape properly.
• Heat and altitude push liquid through. Air inside the reserve expands, and the chamber floods. Stand the device upright and let it settle after a flight or a hot car.
• Shaking does nothing useful. It floods the chamber rather than speeding the feed up.
• The viewing window shows the reserve. A pod that still shows liquid but tastes dry has a chamber or wick problem, not a quantity problem.

Why 10ml, and why this format exists at all

The 10ml figure is not arbitrary. UK regulation sets three limits that every product on this page is built around: a pod or tank may hold no more than 2ml, nicotine may not exceed 20mg/ml, and any separately sold container of nicotine-containing e-liquid may not exceed 10ml.

That last number is why bottled nic salts come in 10ml bottles and why the sealed reserves inside a big pod are 10ml each rather than one large one. A Pro Ultra Plus carries 22ml as a 2ml chamber plus two 10ml reserves — three compliant vessels. The coil never has more than 2ml available to it at any moment, and no single container exceeds the limit.

The second rule shaping the category is the ban on single-use vapes. A device is reusable when its battery recharges and its pod is replaceable, which is exactly what these are. Refills existing as a separate product line is precisely what makes the hardware legitimate. It is also what makes it affordable: buying refills rather than complete kits is the difference between roughly 36p and 54p per millilitre on the Pro Ultra Plus, and the equivalent gap exists across every range.

Prefilled refill pods, range by range

Every one of these arrives sealed, full and with its coil built in. There is nothing to assemble, nothing to pour and nothing to wait for beyond the few minutes of priming. When the liquid is gone, the pod and its coil are finished together.

The dual-flavour refill

One range does something the others do not. The Pro Ultra Plus splits its 20ml of reserve into two separate 10ml containers holding different liquids, with a rotating collar below the mouthpiece that selects which one feeds the chamber. Only one feed channel is ever open, so the flavours do not blend — you are choosing between them.

The one caveat worth stating honestly is the shared chamber. After rotating the collar, the previous flavour is still in the 2ml chamber and soaked into the wick, so there is a transition of roughly fifteen to thirty puffs before the new one comes through clean. Switching and then leaving the device a few minutes makes it cleaner. Roughly half the range is sold as single flavours instead, where both reserves carry the same liquid and there is nothing to manage. The complete range sits under Pro Ultra Plus.

Bottled refills: the other kind

If you own a refillable device you are not buying prefilled pods at all — you are buying liquid in a bottle and putting it in yourself. Hayati's bottled range covers three formats.

Which bottle for which device

• Nic salts, 50:50, 10mg. The closest match to the prefilled experience. Salt nicotine is smooth at higher strengths, and a 50:50 ratio is thin enough to wick properly in a small pod. This is what most Quokka owners use.
• 50/50 shortfill, 0mg. Same ratio, no nicotine, in a much larger bottle. Suits a small pod perfectly if you want no nicotine.
• 70/30 shortfill, 0mg. Thicker, with more vegetable glycerine. Better matched to higher-power hardware than to a 2ml pod — in a small pod a 70:30 liquid wicks more slowly and increases the risk of a dry hit.

Flavour names carry across from the pod ranges in a lot of cases, which is genuinely useful: profiles including Watermelon Ice, Triple Mango, Summer Dream, Strawberry Raspberry Ice, Red Apple Ice and Vimbull Ice appear in bottled form as well as in pods. If you have found something you like in a prefilled pod, it is worth checking whether it exists in a bottle before you commit to the refillable route. The full bottled catalogue is under Hayati E-Liquids.

Prefilled or refillable: the honest comparison

The short version

Prefilled is convenience. You pay more per millilitre and you get to not think about it. Refillable is control and cost. You pay much less per millilitre and you get complete freedom over flavour and strength, in exchange for filling a 2ml pod every few hours and occasionally dealing with liquid on your fingers.

Neither is the right answer for everyone. A great many people run both — a Quokka at home where filling is easy, and a prefilled Pro Ultra Plus or Rubik in a pocket where it is not. If you are undecided, start prefilled: it is cheaper to try, and if you find yourself wishing you could change strength or flavour more freely, that tells you to move.

What refills fit what

This is where money gets wasted, so it is worth being explicit. Hayati refill pods are not interchangeable between ranges. Each range was designed around its own capacity, coil resistance, airflow path, contact geometry and magnet position. There is no adapter and there is no near-enough.

Note the trap: the Rubik and the Pro Max Plus 6000 both hold 12ml, and people reasonably assume their pods are the same. They are not. Capacity is a coincidence, not a compatibility indicator.

Identifying your device

• Read the old pod. Capacity is printed on it — 22ml Pro Ultra Plus, 12ml Pro Max Plus 6000 or Rubik, 7ml Pro Max Plus 4000, 4ml Mini Ultra. A rubber-plugged fill port means a Quokka.
• Read the device body, where the range name is printed.
• Check the mouthpiece. Only Pro Ultra Plus has a rotating collar.
• Ask us. Send a photograph through the contact details on the store. It takes seconds and saves you the price of a pod that will never fit.

If a pod does not seat, do not force it. Bent contact pins on the device are the usual result, and that is a permanent fault.

Nicotine strengths across refills

Nicotine salt is used across the prefilled range because it is smoother on the throat at high strengths than freebase nicotine. Almost every prefilled pod is 20mg/ml, the UK legal maximum, and the devices' restricted mouth-to-lung draw is tuned around that.

• 20mg — every prefilled range. The default.
• 10mg — Pro Max Plus 10mg pods and all bottled nic salts, with matching 10mg kits.
• 5mg — Pro Max Plus 5mg pods, plus the Pro Ultra Plus Shisha 30000 pod, which fits standard Pro Ultra Plus devices.
• 0mg — Pro Max Plus zero-nicotine pods, matching zero-nicotine kits, and both shortfill ranges.

Nicotine is an addictive substance and strength is a personal decision. As a general principle it is easier to step up from a strength that feels mild than to persevere with one that is harsher than you want, so if you are uncertain, start lower. The refillable route gives you the finest control here, because you are simply choosing which bottle to buy.

What refills cost over a year

Unit prices tell you very little on their own, because a £3.49 pod and a £7.99 pod contain wildly different amounts of liquid. These are the numbers that actually matter.

The spread is dramatic: the same 250ml of liquid costs somewhere between about £15 and about £218 depending entirely on how you buy it. A few honest caveats on reading that table.

• Shortfills are 0mg. The six-pence figure is real but it is nicotine-free liquid. It is the cheapest route only if zero nicotine suits you.
• Refillable adds a pod cost. A Quokka pod at £6.99 covers many fills but not infinite ones, so add a few pounds a year to the bottled figures.
• Millilitres are not puffs. Different coils and airflow extract different numbers of puffs per millilitre. On cost per thousand puffs the Pro Ultra Plus pulls clearly ahead of the Rubik despite being marginally dearer per millilitre.
• The Mini Ultra premium is the price of size. Small devices cost more per millilitre in every brand. That is a legitimate trade, not a rip-off — just do not make one your main vape by accident.

The mistake that costs most

Buying complete kits when you already own the device. A Pro Ultra Plus kit is £11.99 against £7.99 for the identical pod, and a Pro Max Plus kit is £7.99 against £5.49. The liquid and the coil are the same; you are paying for a battery you already have. At one pod a fortnight on the Pro Ultra Plus that habit costs roughly a hundred pounds a year.

The easiest saving available

Free UK delivery starts at £20. Ordering a single pod at a time means paying postage repeatedly. Ordering three or four together does not, and leaves you a spare for the evening one runs out unexpectedly.

How long a refill lasts

Puff ratings come from controlled testing with a fixed draw length at a fixed interval. They are a reasonable way to compare one product against another and close to useless for predicting your own fortnight. Most people land between half and three-quarters of a rated figure on any high-capacity product, and that is normal rather than a defect.

What changes your real consumption

• Draw length. The single biggest factor. A three-second pull consumes around half again what a two-second one does.
• Chain-vaping. Puffs in quick succession outrun the wick, and some liquid is consumed without delivering much flavour.
• Temperature. Warm liquid is thinner, wicks faster and is used faster. A device carried in a pocket all day gets through more than one on a cool desk.
• Battery charge. A low cell produces weak vapour, and weak vapour makes people take more puffs to compensate. Keeping it charged genuinely stretches a refill.
• Unused reserve. On dual-flavour pods, liquid left in a reserve you never rotated to still counts against your total.

Work out your own number

Note the date you fit a refill and the date you finish it. After two or three you will know your own rate better than any rating can tell you, and that is the figure to plan reordering around. At the same consumption, a 22ml Pro Ultra Plus pod means ordering roughly twice a month while a 4ml Mini Ultra pod means ordering weekly or more often — which for a lot of people matters more than the price difference.

Choosing a refill flavour

With two hundred listings, browsing alphabetically is a poor way to decide. These are the routes that work.

Browse by fruit family

Berry and red fruit dominate the catalogue. Berry vapes collects everything with a berry component across every range, and below it sit raspberry, blueberry, strawberry, cherry and blackcurrant. The two biggest specific combinations are blueberry raspberry and strawberry raspberry ice.

Elsewhere, citrus runs through lemon, lemon lime and orange; tropical covers mango, pineapple, kiwi and banana, with the broader exotic listing above them. Watermelon, apple, peach and grape each have enough listings to browse on their own.

Browse by character

Ice is a texture rather than a flavour. Adding it changes how a profile feels, not what it tastes of, and it often rescues a fruit that seems flat or cloying without changing what you actually like about it. Ice, menthol, mint and fresh mint collect these. At the opposite end, sweet vapes gathers bubblegum, candyfloss and dessert-leaning profiles, and lemonade and cola cover soft-drink territory. A few named profiles are popular enough to span several ranges — Mr Blue, Summer Dream and Juicy Peach each appear in more than one pod family and in bottled form.

Change one thing at a time

Flavours vary along several axes at once: fruit, sweetness, ice or menthol content, and whether there is a confectionery element. Moving one axis per purchase gives a far better hit rate than jumping across three. From Strawberry Ice, the sensible next steps are Strawberry Raspberry Ice (fruit), Straw' Lemonade (format) or Strawberry GB (sweetness). Something unrelated usually ends up half-finished.

A note on sweet profiles

Heavily sweet flavours are the ones people most often tire of partway through a large refill. They are excellent in short stretches and wearing across 22ml. If you like them, buying them in a smaller pod — or as one half of a dual-flavour Pro Ultra Plus pairing, with something cleaner opposite — gives you somewhere to go when the sweetness starts to cloy.

Refilling a Quokka properly

If you have gone the refillable route, doing this well makes the difference between a pod that lasts weeks and one that tastes burnt in two days.

1. Fill a new pod and leave it. Open the fill port, introduce liquid slowly down the side rather than straight into the central airway, close the plug, and let the pod stand for at least ten minutes before vaping. The wick needs to saturate completely.
2. Do not overfill. Stop short of the top. A pod filled to the brim has no air space, which is what causes gurgling and leaking.
3. Keep liquid out of the central tube. That is the airway, not the tank. Liquid in it goes straight into your mouth.
4. Prime with gentle puffs. Two or three easy draws without firing, then a few short ones, before normal use.
5. Refill before it runs dry. Vaping a pod to empty is the fastest way to burn a coil. Top up when the level gets low rather than when it is gone.
6. Stick to one flavour per pod where you can. Wicking material holds flavour. Switching between strong profiles in the same pod gives you a muddled result for the first few fills.
7. Replace the pod when flavour drops off. A replacement Quokka pod is £6.99, and a tired coil will not improve.

Which refill route suits you

If you already own a device, your route is decided and you simply need the matching pod. If you are choosing a system, this is the decision.

You want the lowest running cost with no effort

Pro Ultra Plus refills. Around 36p per millilitre and roughly 32p per thousand puffs, which is the cheapest prefilled option we stock to run, and a refill lasts most people a fortnight or more. You are locked to 20mg on almost every option and the initial kit costs more, but nothing else in prefilled form comes close over time.

You want the widest flavour choice

Pro Max Plus refills. Eighty-nine options, nearly twice the Pro Ultra Plus list, and it includes profiles that appear nowhere else in the catalogue. It is also the only prefilled family with strengths below 20mg, which makes it the default recommendation for anyone who finds the maximum strength too much.

You want the cheapest individual purchase

Rubik refills at £3.99 for 12ml. The lowest cost per millilitre in the prefilled catalogue, with a shorter flavour list and no dual-flavour function, but nothing about the vape itself compromised. The £5.99 Rubik kit is also the cheapest sensible entry into a full-size device.

You want something genuinely pocketable

Mini Ultra refills. Accept the economics — roughly two and a half times the Pro Ultra Plus cost per millilitre — and it makes sense as a second device rather than a primary one. The whole range including kits is under Hayati Mini Ultra.

You want complete control

Bottled refills and a Quokka. Any compliant liquid, any strength sold in a bottle, and the lowest liquid cost available. The price is involvement: filling a 2ml pod several times a day, priming properly, and occasionally handling liquid. People who enjoy that side of vaping tend to stay with it; people who do not tend to drift back to prefilled within a month.

You are not sure

Start prefilled with a Rubik or Pro Max Plus kit. Both are cheap enough that getting it wrong is not painful, both give you a proper full-size vape, and both reveal quickly whether you want more capacity, more flavour choice or more control. Everything is browsable side by side from our store.

When you need hardware rather than a refill

Refills assume you already own a working device. A few situations mean buying a kit instead, and it is worth recognising them rather than replacing pods on a device that is past it.

• Your first device in a range. A pod on its own does nothing without matching hardware, and there is no cross-compatibility to fall back on.
• The battery is holding charge noticeably less well. Lithium cells lose capacity with use. The symptom is a shorter run time between charges and vapour that fades sooner after each one. A fresh kit gives you a new cell plus a full refill for a few pounds more than the refill alone.
• The contact pins are damaged. Usually the result of forcing a mismatched pod. Bent or flattened pins do not recover and the device will fire intermittently or not at all.
• You want a spare on charge rotation. Particularly worthwhile on the Pro Ultra Plus, where two devices mean up to four flavours available simultaneously and no evening lost to a flat battery.
• You are buying for someone else. Give them the hardware as well as the liquid.

On some ranges the gap is trivial. A Mini Ultra kit at £3.99 is fifty pence more than the £3.49 pod, so there is very little reason not to take the kit. At the other end, a Pro Ultra Plus kit is four pounds more than the pod, which is worth paying occasionally and expensive to pay habitually. Every kit we carry is listed under Hayati Pod Kits, and the prefilled ones specifically under prefilled pod kits.

Fitting a prefilled refill pod

1. Pull the old pod straight up rather than twisting it off.
2. Wipe the contacts on the device with a dry tissue. Residue is a common cause of a good new pod appearing dead.
3. Unseal the new pod — bung out of the base, sticker off the mouthpiece. Keep the bung for storing part-used pods.
4. Seat it firmly until the magnets take it and it sits flush.
5. Stand it upright for five minutes so the chamber fills from the reserve.
6. Take two or three gentle priming puffs before vaping properly.
7. Set the collar if it is a dual-flavour Pro Ultra Plus pod. On everything else there is nothing to set.

What a refill includes and what it does not

Worth being explicit, because the word "refill" gets used loosely across the vaping trade and it means different things in different places.

A prefilled refill pod includes: the liquid, the mesh coil, the wicking material, the chamber, the reserve or reserves, and on the Pro Ultra Plus the rotating collar and mouthpiece. Everything that wears out is in there, which is why there is no separate coil to buy and no maintenance beyond fitting it.

It does not include: a battery device, a charging cable, or any liquid beyond what is sealed inside. It is not a bottle of liquid and you cannot decant it.

A bottled refill includes: liquid only. The pod, the coil and the device are all yours to supply, and the coil inside a refillable pod does wear out — expect to replace a Quokka pod periodically as flavour drops off, on top of the bottles.

That difference is why the per-millilitre figures earlier on this page slightly flatter the bottled route. A prefilled pod bundles a fresh coil with every refill; a bottle does not. It is still comfortably cheaper to refill, but the gap is narrower than the raw liquid price suggests.

Troubleshooting refills

New pod tastes weak or harsh

It has not primed. Stand it upright for five minutes, take gentle draws first. Firing hard on a part-dry wick is also how you damage a new coil, so patience here pays.

Burnt taste

Chain-vaping outruns the wick — rest it for ten minutes and slow down. On a refillable, it usually means you let the pod run low. If a burnt taste persists on a prefilled pod with liquid clearly visible, the coil has failed and you should contact us rather than continue.

Leaking or gurgling

On a prefilled pod, the chamber is over-filled from lying flat, being shaken or a temperature change — remove it, tap the mouthpiece onto a tissue, refit and stand it upright. On a refillable, you have overfilled it or got liquid into the central airway.

No vapour

Flat battery, pod not seated, dirty contacts, or a finger over the air intake. Work through those four in order before concluding anything is faulty.

Flavour has faded

Frequently palate fatigue rather than the pod, especially on large-capacity refills where you spend a fortnight on one profile. Try something different for a day. On a dual-flavour Pro Ultra Plus, rotating the collar does the same job.

One reserve empty, one full

Normal if you have favoured one side of a dual pod. Liquid cannot move between reserves, so the remedy is to alternate more evenly on the next one.

Storage and recycling

Storing refills

• Keep sealed pods and unopened bottles somewhere cool, dark and dry. Both store well for months.
• Store part-used pods upright with the bung refitted. Laying them flat floods the chamber.
• Avoid heat and sunlight — both degrade flavour, and warm liquid is thinner and leaks more readily.
• Never leave devices, pods or bottles in a parked car in summer.
• Keep everything well away from children and pets. Nicotine liquid is harmful if swallowed, and a 10ml bottle looks entirely innocuous.

Recycling

Used pods contain a coil, wicking material and residual liquid; devices contain lithium cells. Neither belongs in household waste or general recycling. Discarded lithium cells are a documented and growing cause of fires in bin lorries and at waste processing sites, which is why UK WEEE and battery regulations require them to be collected separately.

Take spent pods and devices to a small-electricals or vape recycling point. Council household waste recycling centres accept them, many larger retailers run battery and electricals take-back bins, and dedicated vape collection points are increasingly common. Rinse and recycle empty plastic bottles with your normal plastics where your council accepts them. Do not break pods open, do not prise cells out, and never charge a device that is damaged, swollen or has been in water.

Ordering refills from Hayati Flavours

We are an independent UK retailer specialising in the Hayati catalogue. We are not Hayati's own store and we claim no official status. What we offer is depth on one brand and staff who will answer a compatibility question straight.

Delivery

• Free UK delivery on orders over £20. Three Pro Ultra Plus pods, four Pro Max Plus pods, five Rubik pods or eight 10ml nic salts all clear it.
• Tracked 24 and tracked 48 at checkout, tracking emailed on collection.
• Same working day dispatch before our daily cut-off, next working day after it.
• Plain outer packaging with nothing on the box that indicates the contents.

Age verification

Adults 18 and over only. Every order runs an electronic age check against public records at checkout, and where that cannot confirm your age we will request identification before dispatch. Couriers operate age-restricted delivery on these parcels, so an adult over 18 must be available to receive them. These are legal requirements and we make no exceptions to them.

Finding what you need

If you know your device, go straight to its pod listing from the compatibility table above. If you want to browse by flavour instead, our category listings cut across every range — berry, ice, sweet, exotic, mint and the rest. The complete pod catalogue organised by device family sits under Hayati Pods, complete kits under Hayati Pod Kits, and everything we have added recently under new products. The full catalogue is browsable from our store.

Ask before you order

Buying a refill that does not fit is the most common avoidable mistake in this category and it is entirely preventable with one message. If there is any doubt at all about which device you own or which liquid suits it, ask us first.

Related collections

• All Hayati Pods
• Pro Ultra Plus Pods
• Pro Max Plus Pods
• Rubik 7000 Pods
• Mini Ultra Pods
• Quokka Refillable Pods
• Hayati E-Liquids
• 10ml Nic Salts
• Refillable Pod Kits
• All Hayati Pod Kits

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