You'll need to dig through the directories to find anything worthwhile. Big directories, strong on individual country guides. Every link includes a tightly edited comment. A place for you to look for opinions, advice, first hand experiences, or the right newsgroup to join. Once the pick of the crop but sadly neglected by new owner Lycos.
Inference is a powerful search engine.
It goes out, searches multiple search engines at once, sorts the data, and eliminates the duplicates in a matter of seconds. It frequently sorts the results by site. If one link is bad on a site, and two links are bad, a searcher can usually skip the whole site. Using Inference is simple. Great tool when you want to search in a multitude of ways.