michelin green guides for sites.
Access guides for cities. best collection of hotels and restaurants in a guide. also have good maps.

go to the library and take out fodors and frommers and eye witness. then make copies of the pages of the places your are going. really smalls the pile down. in the past, i took them all. also went to two countries. the books outweighed the rest of the luggage.

for hotels, use venere.com for initial search.