VicksTop Fill Cool Mist Ultrasonic Humidifier - Easy to use - Year Round Home Use in Living Rooms, Bedrooms, Baby Nursery - Up to 24h for 35m2 - Quiet - Essential Oil - VapoPads Included - VUL585

Easy to setup and use. Made my whooping cough episode much easier to get through

This is a large humidifier that has superior an adjustatble output. It requires some setting up and although it's all in the instructions, these are not that easy to follow at first glance and I think that Vicks should revisit these. Once assembled (it's easier than the instructions lead you to think) the humidifier is ready for use.To use it, open the top - or take the top part to the tap and fill. It takes a huge amount of water around two litres to fill it up, connect the power and turn the knob to your required intensity. Unlike the myriad of cheap humidifers out there, this has a much large ultrasonic unit and at full blast gives off a lot of vapour.One area - or maybe two that it differs radically from all the others I've tried is using it with essential oils. Every other device I've used, you add these to the water; but Vicks tell you repeatedly not to, and will invalidate any warranty if it's used with these oils. Instead there's a recepticle that you can use which just heats them or you can use Vicks scented pads with a RRP of around eight pounds. These fit in the side - you can see this in the photos and the quick video I shot. The other area where it differs is that it tells you after three days to clean it and there are further weekly and monthly cleaning instructions in the documentation.It's a nice unit but big. Not being able to use essential oils, and relying on Vicks limited range of pads is something that looses it a star for me. I can see us using it however, for the cooling effect in the summer. If it's an high output humidifier you want this would be a good choice.

Had no problem with it u can use any essential oils so really good

It does the job, and has definitely helped my chest at night, it's unfortunately though just so hard to clean!!! There's so many hard to get places and I've ended up breaking little bits off because I'm trying to clean them. Some bits I can't get to properly. Other than that though it does work great, it's just the cleaning I find a nightmare.

Bought it for the winter months. The room is stuffy with heater and this humidifier releases cool mist with mint scent. The mist is quite strong as well.Perfect for block nose.No noise at all. Easy to use although the button is a bit rigid.