A British Columbia couple is warning other travellers to "do your homework" after being stranded in Washington state for two nights and a day, unable to find a rapid test for COVID-19.

April Lewis and her partner Martin Clingwall were returning from a seven-week stay in Palm Springs and hoping to cross the border into B.C. on Saturday. They knew they needed a negative test result, but had no idea how tricky it would be to find a test.

"I honestly, truly thought it would be a piece of cake — that every pharmacy in the Bellingham area would be welcoming us with open arms, saying, 'Canadians, we love you, come!'" Lewis said Sunday, from a hotel in the city south of Langley.

"We didn't think to book online, we should have perhaps booked online and we could have got one maybe in Seattle."

In February, the federal government eased testing requirements for fully-vaccinated Canadians, allowing them to produce a negative rapid test result instead of a PCR result, as long as the test was administered by a health-care entity or lab.

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