Our Story
Planning vacations shouldn’t feel like homework.
We started Ministry of Lazy in 2025 because we got sick of watching Chicago friends spend six hours in ten browser tabs trying to book a Caribbean vacation — only to end up overpaying, or worse, sold a package with a hidden catch. Travel agents aren’t dead. They just got lazy themselves. So we built a new kind of agency for the Midwest: small, honest, fast to answer the phone, and ruthlessly focused on the four Caribbean destinations that make sense from O’Hare and Midway.
A good travel agent does in one phone call what a comparison site can’t do in a full afternoon. We already know which Cancun resorts have the best waterparks for 7-year-olds, which Punta Cana properties have sargassum-free beaches in July, which Jamaica all-inclusives are worth the 90-minute transfer from Montego Bay, and which airline has the best track record of getting Chicago families home on time from Aruba during winter storm season. That kind of knowledge comes from actually booking hundreds of Chicago-to-Caribbean trips per year, not from scraping TripAdvisor.
We’re based in Chicago, officially registered in Illinois as O&V Services LLC (IL LLC #16061905), and proudly serve the entire Chicago metropolitan area — downtown, North Shore, Northwest and West suburbs, Southwest, and Northwest Indiana. We also serve a large Ukrainian-American community across Ukrainian Village, Palatine, Des Plaines, Mount Prospect, Buffalo Grove, Arlington Heights and the rest of Chicagoland — Oksana is from Ukraine, speaks Ukrainian and Russian as native languages, and is particularly equipped to help with document, visa, and US-re-entry questions for travelers on TPS, humanitarian parole, U4U, or an EAD.
When you work with us, you work directly with one person — Oksana — not a call center, not a chatbot, not a ticketing queue. She answers her own phone, reads her own email, and personally books every trip. That’s what a small, trustworthy Chicago travel agent should look like in 2026.
“Go lazy. We’ll handle the rest.” That’s not marketing — that’s the actual promise. You call. We book. You pack.
Your Travel Agent
Oksana Korol
Your personal vacation architect
Born in Ukraine, based in Chicago. Speaks English, Ukrainian, Russian, and fluent “what’s your budget, and what made your last vacation great or terrible?” Booking Caribbean all-inclusives since before it was trendy.
How It Works
Three steps to lazy
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You tell us what you want
Dates, budget, who’s going, what went well and badly on past trips. 5 minutes on the phone.
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We find the right fit
Oksana runs through current deals, hidden-fare inventory, and resort nuances no website will tell you.
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You book and go
One confirmation, everything included. Transfer driver is waiting at the airport. You do nothing.
Why Us
MoLazy vs. booking sites
| Booking sites | MoLazy | |
|---|---|---|
| Time to book | ~6 hours + 10 browser tabs | One phone call |
| Hidden fees | Common | Everything disclosed up front |
| Resort knowledge | Generic reviews | Real visits, real clients |
| Help if something goes wrong | 1-800 call center | Direct line to Oksana |
| Price | Sometimes cheaper | Usually equal or better |
No commission markup, no “service fee,” no upsell quotas. We get paid by the tour operators and hotels — you pay what you’d pay anyway, with someone who actually cares whether your vacation works out.
Who we serve
A Chicago travel agent for the whole metro area
Ministry of Lazy is a small independent agency, not a franchise. We work with clients across the full Chicagoland service area, from downtown Chicago and Lincoln Park to the farthest suburbs. Because everything we do is remote (phone, email, text, video call), your physical distance from our office doesn’t matter — what matters is that you get the same licensed Illinois travel agent on every call, every trip.
Our clients come from neighborhoods and suburbs including: downtown Chicago, Lincoln Park, Lakeview, Logan Square, Bucktown, Wicker Park, Ukrainian Village, West Loop, South Loop, Hyde Park; Evanston, Wilmette, Winnetka, Glencoe, Highland Park, Deerfield, Northbrook, Lake Forest; Arlington Heights, Palatine, Schaumburg, Hoffman Estates, Barrington, Des Plaines, Mount Prospect, Buffalo Grove, Rolling Meadows; Oak Park, River Forest, Elmhurst, Wheaton, Naperville, Aurora, Downers Grove, Lombard, Glen Ellyn; Orland Park, Tinley Park, Oak Lawn, Homer Glen; and Northwest Indiana commuters in Munster, Schererville, and Crown Point.
Most of our bookings leave from O’Hare (ORD) or Midway (MDW), but we also regularly book Rockford (RFD) and Milwaukee (MKE) departures when that’s more convenient for clients in the far Northwest suburbs. We know the Chicago airport ecosystem as well as anyone — which terminals have the best lounges, which airlines handle irrops best in winter, and how to structure a family trip so a canceled flight doesn’t wreck your vacation.
Ukrainian-American Community
We speak Ukrainian. Fluently, natively.
Oksana Korol was born in Ukraine and moved to the US before the full-scale war. Since then, she has been one of the few travel agents in the Chicago area who can confidently walk a Ukrainian-speaking family through every step of a Caribbean trip — in Ukrainian or Russian, with real knowledge of the US immigration-status documents you need to come back (TPS, humanitarian parole, U4U, EAD, valid I-94).
If you’re more comfortable in Ukrainian, we built a dedicated welcome page for you in Ukrainian where we explain how this works in plain language. You do not have to navigate the English site if you don’t want to.
Ready when you are
Call, message, or send a quick request. No accounts, no spam.