Quote Originally Posted by AllInJimmy View Post
I had no trouble booking Momo when I started at Mirage but have been having issues lately. Today I got told there was no availability. I replied I will have to get in earlier in the week then.

I then got asked if I could do 1600. I said that was a bit late. Then got offered 1200 but I had already made plans to check out Amora in Merrylands.

Was a strange turn of events from no availability to various belated offers. Can any of you more seasoned lads explain what this may have been about?
Momo’s popularity or availability seems to fluctuate over time. When I first started going to Mirage I couldn’t get a booking with her for love or money, and gave up trying after a while; then one day I somehow got her on a walk in, and was able to book her easily enough after that. The last couple of months though it’s back to not being able to get a booking, or I book and then have it cancelled as she’s a no show or changed her hours or something.

Almost same thing as happened to you happened to me two weeks ago; made a booking several days in advance, confirmed. Just after Momo’s scheduled start time that day Nana contacted me and said she’d have to cancel booking as Momo couldn’t make it in that day, so I changed my booking to another girl instead. Then, a few hours later (about half an hour before my booking), Nana told me Momo had shown up after all, would I still like to keep my booking? By that time though I didn’t have time to make it to Petersham so declined.

Here’s what I think sometimes happens in cases like that - based on my own speculation and things that Nana and some of the girls have told me. The girls are all supposed to confirm with Nana by Friday their availability for the week ahead to give Nana time to make the roster and publish it on Sunday BUT they don’t always get back to her with firm availability by Friday, plus sometimes Nana schedules them for times outside when they’ve said they’re available to balance the roster and account for busy and quiet periods. So the weekly roster is usually reasonably accurate but at least I’m part a wish list. So depending on how sure or otherwise Nana is of a girl working a particular shift, they will either take bookings but then cancel them if the girl doesn’t confirm her availability, or say she’s unavailable, then go back to people who tried to book if at the last minute the girl confirms her availability.

Nana generally tries to avoid those situations, but I think Momo in particular has more leeway than most of the girls, given her popularity and longevity - she’s worked for Nana longer than anyone else I believe (more than 2 years now at Mirage and for a time at Sussex st prior to that).