@kitten Assume it will probably be missed. You will probably be over an hour late (boo) and get 50% of your ticket price refunded (yay!). If there is not another train Mannheim -> Köln you will likely have to spend the night in Manheim at DB's expense.
I try to always avoid booking any short connections onto the last train of the day.
@erincandescent@kitten do not use the form if you need to claim refunds for costs that you need to get back from DB btw, they’ll just give you a canned answer like “well uhh go talk to Eurail” send a letter stating “hello here is my itinerary, train $something got delayed and there were no further itineraries to $destination when I exited that train in $some_place so I got a hotel there, here’s my interrail, here’s the booklet, here’s the hotel invoice and here’s my IBAN, this request concerns compensation for the hotel stay only”
@erincandescent@kitten and for interrail you will also get some flat amount back up to a certain percentage of your ticket. they are pissy about proof of that delay though, so you need to weigh the €20 with potentially having to go to a DB Rz and getting a stamped confirmation (in theory every Rz should be able to print one for every German train but in practice they may not feel like doing so idfk)
@sam@erincandescent look if they give me a place to spend the night I'm just fine, whatever as long as I can avoid the 12 tasks of Asterix you're saying I'll have to do :blobwtfnotlikethis:
@kitten@erincandescent oh they're most certainly not going to give one to you, you have to get a hotel room at your own cost and then send DB a letter asking for the money back
@kitten@erincandescent I do have to admit that the last time I had to deal with this it did indeed feel like getting a passierschein A38 but that was before someone explained the above to me
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