Christmas update: New Hourglass and Ice Skates rooms

Remember those two new, unknown placeholder spots in your Guest Book?

Today EA has released the rooms that will populate the Guest Book with the new guests: Hourglass Room and Ice Skates room.

The Hourglass room takes up 2 squares in your hotel, costs 1,006 gold at half price (presumably 2,012 gold at regular price), and pays out rent every 3 days and 22 hours. Rent is M$43,083,333 and 700,000XP. Given that that's once in 99 hours, it works out to M$217,592.59 and 3,535.35XP per square, per hour. 

Not bad, but, not that great, given that you could instead pick up a Winter Scarf (as long as it's available) for 625 gold at half price right now, earning a neat M$2,000,000 and 25,000XP per square, per hour. 

Or even better, you could pay 1,100 gold (just a little bit more than the Hourglass) for a Mayan Calendar, which averages a whopping M$5,208,333.34 per square, per hour - but only 986.84XP per square, per hour.

Alternatively, once the Winter Scarf and the Mayan Calendar are removed from circulation, you could spend almost the same price as the Hourglass to pick up the Flute room, which pays M$10,000,000 and 225,000XP every 8 hours, for an average of M$1,250,000 and 28,125XP per square, per hour!

I'd guess the only reason to pick up this room would be because you are either looking to fill up your Guest Book, or trying to complete a sticker (no sticker uses this room yet), or perhaps are just bored of all the high paying rooms you already have. :)

The other new room, the Ice Skates room, is slightly better. It also occupies 2 squares in your hotel, but costs a bit less, at 750 gold at half price (presumably 1,500 gold once the sale is over). 

Rent on this room is M$8,750,000 and 20,000XP every 6 hours, which averages out to M$729,166.67 and 1,666.67XP per square, per hour.

Again, this room doesn't come close to the payout you could get from the slightly cheaper Winter Scarf room, or the 33% more expensive Flute room ... making me wonder why I should want this room. 

Would you buy either of these rooms? I don't know if I would.

The only thing I can think of is that EA may be planning to bring out a sticker using these two rooms, or may make them also "Limited Time" to tempt us to buy them.

For now, I think I'll focus on saving up my gold to attempt to buy another Golden Cauldron before the "50% off rooms you buy with gold" sale ends - it hasn't ended yet.

If I cannot save up the full 1,400 for a new Golden Cauldron, I'll probably aim for a second Mayan Calendar. And if even that is not feasible, I'll settle for a Golden Treasure or perhaps a Volcanoes.