Two SA women have been arrested after police say they snuck out of hotel quarantine on Tuesday

Two SA women have been arrested in Perth after allegedly sneaking out of their hotel – where they were meant to be waiting to be sent back home after being denied entry.

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Two South Australian women have been arrested after allegedly sneaking out of Western Australia hotel quarantine on Tuesday night.

Western Australia Police say the two women, aged 19 and 22, arrived in Western Australia, on-board a Virgin Flight around 8.20pm Monday.

They were refused entry into WA, as they had not made a prior application to enter the state, and their sole purpose for entering WA was to holiday and visit family.

The women were directed to the Novotel Hotel on Murray Street, Perth, to quarantine until return flights to Adelaide could be arranged.

WA Police allege the women left the hotel around 1.30am Tuesday, and caught a taxi to a unit block in Coolbellup – about 20 minutes south of Perth.

Police attended the unit block on Tuesday morning, and arrested the women.

The were charged with failing to comply with a direction in accordance with the Emergency Management Act.

Both were remanded in custody to reappear on the 9am list on August 20 for mention.

Neither entered a plea on Tuesday.

WA Police will change the way they deal with some people quarantining in hotels.

The incident has prompted a review into the quarantine system in WA, with police officers to now provide additional security at hotels where people who have been deemed “high risk” are staying.

“These women would’ve hit that threshold,” Mr Dreibergs said.

“That’s why we’ve done that assessment now and we believe it’s appropriate that police officers provide additional security at areas where we have high risk people.

“Unfortunately, when we have people like this who do the wrong thing, we have to review our set of circumstances and then we escalate what we do around managing the environment.”

Mr Dreibergs said it was concerning that the women had breached hotel security but would not elaborate further on the details of their escape.

“The women haven’t been tested for COVID, we don’t test people who arrive from South Australia,” he said.

“But we’ve been advised by the Health Department that they don’t pose a significant health risk.”

Mr Dreibergs described the alleged breach as a “very serious matter” and “very disappointing”.

“We establish hotel quarantine to assist our community, it isn't there for detention, and when people do breach the quarantine it really does rock the trust of our organisation,” he said.