AA Meetings in Orlando

Find an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in Orlando today through Central Florida Intergroup, which keeps a meeting guide for the Orlando area and answers a 24-hour hotline at (407) 260-5408. A Spanish-language intergroup serves the city separately. Our meeting finder at /meetings/ searches public AA feeds by day and format. Confirm the listing with the group before you go.

Call 911 if someone is overdosing, seizing, not breathing, or cannot be woken. For a mental health or suicide crisis, call or text 988.

How to Find AA Meetings Across Orlando

Central Florida Intergroup is the service office for AA groups throughout the Central Florida area. Its meeting archive is a living directory: in-person, online, and hybrid meetings, with a "temporary closure" tag for groups whose rooms are closed and an "online meeting" filter for Zoom listings. Need a meeting tonight at a specific hour? Filter by day and time first, then pick the closest location.

The 24-hour hotline, (407) 260-5408, is answered around the clock by AA members — not a call center — for meeting information and to talk. The office and bookstore at 283 Live Oaks Boulevard, Building 6, in Casselberry's Live Oaks Center are open Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday by appointment; the office line is (407) 260-5822. Casselberry is a short drive north of the city, so most people will start on the website or hotline instead.

Spanish-language meetings have their own office. Oficina Intergrupal de Orlando lists the Orlando area's Spanish meetings at aaintergrupalhispana.com and answers a Spanish hotline at (407) 240-1181. If Spanish is your first language, call that line directly rather than guessing which groups use Spanish — the Spanish-language fellowship here has its own rooms and schedule.

Downtown Orlando anchors the local scene. The Central Orlando Group meets at the Alco-An Club at 310 E Colonial Drive, and the intergroup's directory shows dozens of meetings at that one address across the week. Nationally, aa.org points people to local offices like this one and to the free Meeting Guide app; our meeting finder searches public A.A. and N.A. feeds as another door.

Orlando Meeting Hubs & Communities

Central Florida's meeting map spreads across three counties, so search by the part of town you can actually reach:

• Downtown Orlando and the Colonial Drive corridor. The Alco-An Club on East Colonial Drive is a dedicated meeting place with dozens of weekly groups, from early-morning meetings to late ones. LYNX's free LYMMO circulator loops downtown, which makes lunchtime meetings realistic without a car.
• Casselberry, Winter Park, and the north suburbs. The intergroup office sits here, along with groups in Longwood, Lake Mary, and Winter Park. Rebos Club in Casselberry is another long-running meeting location in the directory.
• Kissimmee and Osceola County. The Osceola County intergroup serves the southern side of the metro, where the Spanish-speaking population is large; Spanish-language meetings cluster here and downtown.
• West Orange and the neighborhoods along Orange Blossom Trail and the south side. Church halls and community rooms host daily meetings; use the directory's day-and-time filter rather than hunting by neighborhood name.
• Online across the region. The intergroup lists online and hybrid meetings, which matters in a metro where a meeting 15 miles away is a real drive.

Common Meeting Formats & What to Expect

AA sorts meetings into open and closed. An open meeting is available to anyone interested in AA's program of recovery, and nonalcoholics may attend as observers. A closed meeting is for people who have a drinking problem and want to stop drinking. If you are unsure, open is the safe first stop.

Labels you will see in the Orlando directory:

• Newcomer: built for people new to recovery.
• Discussion: members share on a topic; the most common style.
• 12 Steps & 12 Traditions, and Step Study: working through AA's steps and traditions.
• Big Book: reading and discussing AA's basic text.
• Speaker: one or two members tell their story, then the meeting opens up.
• Men's, women's, Spanish, young people's, and wheelchair-accessible meetings are filtered the same way.

Two things are true of every meeting. It is free: AA says there are no dues or fees for membership, and the voluntary basket is optional. And you do not have to talk: AA's newcomer page says you can sit and listen. Anonymity is a founding principle of the fellowship, so what you hear stays in the room. The first-meeting guide walks through a typical hour.

Transportation & Virtual Meetings

Without a car, LYNX is the bus system for Orange, Seminole, and Osceola counties, running dozens of daily local routes ("Links"), the limited-stop FastLink corridors, and LYMMO, a free downtown Orlando circulator. ACCESS LYNX provides ADA paratransit for eligible riders. Schedules are at golynx.com.

Not every meeting needs a bus ride. AA says meetings can be in person, online, or by phone, and the Central Florida directory carries online and hybrid listings directly. Our finder shows online options from public feeds, and the online A.A. meetings guide explains how video and phone meetings work, including staying silent with your camera off.

Peer Support vs. Medical Care

An AA meeting is peer support, not clinical treatment. NIDA explains that mutual-help groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous are peer-led and are not led by healthcare professionals, so they are not the same as treatment, though they are free, not time-limited, and useful on their own or alongside professional care.

Some situations call for a doctor, not a meeting. NIAAA says alcohol withdrawal can be life threatening when people who drink heavily over time stop suddenly rather than cutting back gradually or stopping with medical support. Up to half of people with alcohol use disorder have some withdrawal symptoms, and a small proportion need a few days of medical detox. If you have been drinking heavily and want to stop, talk with a clinician first.

For help beyond a meeting:

• Emergency: call 911 for an overdose, a seizure, trouble breathing, or someone who cannot be woken.
• Crisis: call or text 988 for a mental health or suicide crisis.
• Treatment: search FindTreatment.gov, SAMHSA's treatment locator, or call SAMHSA's National Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357) — free, confidential, 24/7, in English and Spanish.
• Referral help: call or text (800) 653-9376 and we can help you sort out a level of care. SmarterRecovery is a referral helpline, not Central Florida Intergroup; calling is free to you because treatment providers pay for the referral service.

Call or text (800) 653-9376 if you want help finding treatment. If what you need tonight is a meeting, start with the meeting finder or the intergroup directory and confirm the listing. If this is an emergency or a suicide crisis, call 911 or 988 first.

Additional Resources

Sources cited on this page:

• Central Florida Intergroup (home, office and store location, hours, hotline)
• Central Florida Intergroup: meetings archive and 24-hour hotline
• Central Florida Intergroup: Central Orlando Group meeting page (downtown location)
• Oficina Intergrupal de Orlando (Spanish-language intergroup, hotline)
• A.A.: Need help with a drinking problem? (what to expect at a first meeting)
• A.A.: What to Expect at an A.A. Meeting (open and closed meetings)
• A.A.: A.A. and Anonymity
• A.A.: Meeting Guide app
• NIDA: Treatment (mutual-help groups are peer-led, not clinical treatment)
• NIAAA Core Resource on Alcohol: Alcohol Use Disorder, From Risk to Diagnosis to Recovery
• SAMHSA National Helpline
• SAMHSA FindTreatment.gov
• 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
• LYNX: public transportation for Orange, Seminole and Osceola counties (LYMMO free downtown circulator)
• SmarterRecovery meeting finder (public meeting search; listings are not verified by this site)

Common Questions