I recommend Paine Field. It's as close to U of Washington as Boeing Field. There's lots of new airliners to look at as well as the Everett factory where they are built. Castle & Cooke was a nice FBO there with rental car.

 

 I have had bad luck with Boeing Field on several visits. The tower may try to assign the short 13L runway while you are on short final. This induced a go around, in the 4P, with high terrain just to the left. On climb out I had to turn close to 13R for comfortable terrain clearance.

  On another trip I had the strange and unique experience of being cleared into class B, but then "uncleared"(on left downwind for 13) when I crossed an airspace boundary into class D, then immediately back into class B. (This can happen laterally and vertically on left downwind!) I had to call approach later on the ground, to hear that this had happened, but I never could get the guy to explain how the pilot was to know the class B clearance was canceled by flightpath, without notice by radio.

 Many issues are induced by the simultaneous approaches by airliners into SeaTac about 4-5 nm south. Its threading a needle between the rapidly rising terrain and the often low clouds of the marine layer. On westbound departures which are away from the higher terrain, tower may assign very low altitude restrictions over the congested urban city to help avoid setting off the TCAS go around alarms on the ILS airliners into SeaTac. At least in the 4P, this sets you up with no reasonable place to land and no altitude buffer in case of single engine failure on takeoff.

 If you decide to take this on, file IFR and shoot the approach to the long runway. Study the terrain and nuances of the congested Class B airspace relative to the terrain. Avoid the pain-- go to Paine:)

Safe travels

Bill Miller