It must be facilities for people that lives so far from USA, and with a so different economic reality... :(
>You don't have to stay at the hotel where the conference is, people can stay anywhere they want. Much of the food is provided by the conference so it is free to attendees, and overall the value of the DevCon conferences are equivilant to the added registration costs. The conference last longer, many more sessions, detailed interaction with many members of the Microsoft Fox team, at least three times as many attendees to network wtih, etc.
Claudio Lassala