I agree with everyone - Alex and Simon are an absolute joke. I live in NYC and a blind man could see they are wannabes that couldn't squeeze their way into true upper-crust Manhattan society with a vat of lube and a monkey wrench!
Is he really a hotel manager? Haaaaaaaaaaaaaa! If Simon plays his cards rights, Tinsley Mortimer might hire him as her valet. That's about as close as he'll ever get to a real socialite.
Snarkiness aside, it's sort of sad, because I suspect the prediction of future bankruptcy is not far from reality.
From their personal website:
From the show you'll see we like to spend money - but only on good things and you'll see lots of other stuff too. Being able to afford such luxuries is one of the reasons I work as we both fervently believe that income is for spending and capital is for construction and college or when something out of the ordinary occurs (and we hope it never does!).
McCord van Kempens