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You search for a holiday, find one at a price you can afford and think you’ve found a bargain. You click through to book and suddenly the price has changed, usually upwards.

A new Which? investigation shows just how frustrating this can be. Researchers checked more than 2,000 package holidays across five major travel websites and found dozens where the price increased after the initial search.

In some cases, the difference was as much as £580.

Now, holiday prices can change for perfectly legitimate reasons.

Airline seats sell, hotel availability changes and travel companies operate sophisticated dynamic-pricing systems. A price displayed at 9am cannot necessarily be guaranteed........

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